Compilation © 1993 University Publications of America. All rights reserved. Cl £dt*oru1^i ape^b A SELECTIVE MICROFILM EDITION PART III (1887-1898) Thomas E. Jeffrey Microfilm Editor Gregory Field Theresa M. Collins David W. Hutchings Lisa Gltclman Leonard DeGraaf Dennis D. Madden Mary Ann Hcllrigel Paul B. Israel Robert A. Rosenberg Karen A. Detig Gregory Jankunls Douglas G. Tarr Reese V. Jenkins Director and Editor Sponsors Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site New Jersey Historical Commission Smithsonian Institution University Publications of America Bethesda, Maryland 1993 Edison signature used with permission of McGraw-Edlson Company. Thomas A. Edison Pa] Rutgers, The State Univ endorsed by National Historical Publications and K 18 June 1981 Copyright © 1993 by Rutgers, The : All rights reserved. No part of this publication including any ponio be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in ; THOMAS A. EDISON PAPERS Reese V. Jenkins Director and Editor Thomas E. Jeffrey Associate Director and Microfilm Editor Robert A. Rosenberg Managing Editor, Book Edition Helen Endlck Assistant Director for Administration Associate Editor Paul B. Israel Research Associates Theresa M. Collins David W. Hutchings Karen A. Detig Assistant Editors Keith A. Nler Gregory Field Lisa Gltelman Martha J. King Secretary Grace Kurkowski Gregory Jankunls Student Assistant Bethany Jankunls BOARD OF SPONSORS Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Francis L. Lawrence Joseph J. Seneca Richard F. Foley Rudolph M. Bell New Jersey Historical Commission Howard L. Green National Park Service John Maounis Maryanne Gerbauckas Nancy Waters George Tselos Smithsonian Institution Bernard Finn Arthur P. Molella EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD James Brittain, Georgia Institute of Technology Alfred D. 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In lieu of transcripts, however, enlarged photocopies of selected items contained on these reels may be made in order to facilitate research. 1896 DOCUMENT FILE 1896. Dick (A.B) Company (D-96-01) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the mimeograph business of the A. B. Dick Co. Some of the items pertain to a dispute between the company and J. Lewis Young over the unauthorized sale of mimeographs in Great Britain. Also included arc a letter regarding Edison’s stock dividends, an annual financial report, and a comparative statement of sales and profits for the years 1889-1896. 1896. Edison, TA. • Central (D-96-02) This folder contains documents, primarily correspondence, covering a variety of subjects. Some of the material relates to personal matters. Documents that deal with more than one subject or that do not fall under the main subject categories are also filed in this folder. Among the items for 1896 are letters regarding Edison’s attendance at a ceremony honoring Lord Kelvin and an invitation from the mayor of Port Huron, Michigan, for Edison to attend a celebration of his fiftieth birthday. Also included is a letter pertaining to Edison’s testimony in the 1890 street-railway case of Pelton v. East Cleveland Railroad Co. At the end of the folder, in Edison s handwriting, is a stanza from Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." 1896. Edison, TA. - Accounts (D-96-03) [not filmed] This folder contains routine documents relating to Edison’s personal and business finances. All of the documents are routine deposit receipts for Edison’s account at the German National Bank. 1896. Edison, TA. - Articles (D-96-04) This folder contains correspondence and other documents requesting Edison to write articles; correspondence relating to articles about Edison and his inventions; and letters from journalists seeking to interview Edison. Most of the items pertain to Edison’s x-ray experiments. Included arc letters from Thomas Commerford Martin, who interviewed Edison for a symposium on x-rays published in Century magazine; and an undated manuscript regarding Edison and the x-ray, compiled by Francis Leon Chrisman. 1896. Edison, TA. - Clubs and Societies (D-96-05) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison’s membership and activities in social clubs and professional societies. Some or the letters pertain to demonstrationsor lectures on x-rays. Also included is a letter from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences regarding the award of the Rumford 1896. Edison, TA. - Employment (D-96-06) [not filmed] This folder contains correspondence from or about employees and former or prospective employees. Most of the items are requests for employment at the West Orange laboratoiy or various Edison companies. One letter refers to an advertisement for a draftsman at the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works. 1896. Edison, TA. - Family (D-96-07) This folder contains correspondence and other documents by and about Edison’s family. Included are items relating to the death and funeral arrangementsof Edison’s father, Samuel. Other letters pertain to the monthly financial allowance to Edison’s daughter, Marion Edison Oescr. There are also two letters by Thomas A. Edison, Jr., regarding his business and personal affairs. 1896. Edison, TA. - Unsolicited Correspondence - Advice (D-96-08) This folder contains routine correspondence suggesting improvements in Edison’s inventions, asking him for advice on technical matters, or requestinghis assistance in improving or promoting an invention. Also included are unsolicited letters from inventors about their work. Almost all of the letters pertain to x-ray technology. 1896. Edison, TA. • Unsolicited Correspondence - Business (D-96-09) [not filmed] This folder contains routine correspondence requesting agencies for Edison’s inventions, inquiring about their purchase or cost, asking for other information about his inventions, or seeking to do business with Edison. Most of the letters relate to x-ray technology. These inquiries received a standard reply stating that Edison had not yet perfected his x-ray apparatus and that he did not expect to market the device. Many of the documents contain routine Edison marginalia. 1896. Edison, TA. - Unsolicited Correspondence - Personal (D-96-10) [not filmed] This folder contains routine personal requests, fan mail, and other items for which no record of a significant response by Edison has been found. Included are letters asking Edison for educational advice, personal information, loans, charitable contributions, exhibits of his inventions, and other personal favors. 1896. Edison, TA. - Visitors (D-96-11) This folder contains requests to visit Edison or to tour the West Orange laboratory or company shops. Included are a letter regarding a prospective visit by Francis Jehl and Theodore Beran; and a letter of introduction by Thomas C. Martin. Substantive letters from individuals who visited the laboratory or company shops on business can be found in their appropriate subject folders. 1896. Edison Manufacturing Company (D-96-12) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Edison Manufacturing Co. Included are letters pertaining to the termination of the agreement between Edison and Felix Lalande giving the company the right to sell Lalande’s batteiy in the United States. Related material can be found in the various "Motion Pictures" folders. 1896. Electric Light - General (D-96-13) This folder contains correspondence relating to electric lighting and power. There are only 2 items for 1896: a letter from William D. Marks, president of the Edison Electric Light Co. of Philadelphia, detailing the costs of producing electric light at that station; and a test report made by a committee of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 1896. Electric Light - Edison Electric Illuminating Company or New York (D-96-14) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. Included are monthly financial reports, showing comparative earnings, expenses, and other statistics for the years 1895-1896; monthly construction accounts; and a report by Richard R. Bowker, first vice president, discussing company operations. 1896. Electric Light - General Electric Company (D-96-15) This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of the General Electric Co. Most of the documents pertain to negotiations for a new laboratory contract between Edison and the company. There are also letters about the development of fluorescent lamps and items concerning the company’s efforts to locate the corporate records of the Edison Lamp Co. and the Edison Machine Works. Among the correspondents is Frederick P. Fish, an attorney and company official who negotiated the new contract. 1896. Mining (D-96-16) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to mining and ore milling. Included are items pertaining to the purchase of ore milling machinery and the operation of the plant at Edison, N J. There is also a letter about a new steel-making process. 1896. Motion Pictures - Kinetoscope Exhibiting Company (D-96-17) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co. Included are documents regarding the transfer of the company’s interests to the personal control of its president, Samuel J. Tilden. There are also letters about the sale of prize-fight films. 1896. Motion Pictures - Maguire & Bnucus (D-96-18) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relatingto the business of Maguire & Bnucus, which held the rights to market Edison’s kinetoscope in Europe. Many of the letters pertain to the Continental Commerce Co., which acted as the European sales agent for Maguire & Baucus. Included are documents regarding the marketing of the kinetoscope in Germany and Austria and items concerning the business relationship between the company and Edison. Among the correspondents are Joseph D. Baucus, treasurer of the Continental Commerce Co., and Franck Z. Maguire, vice president and general manager of Maguire & Baucus. Related material can be found in D-96-23 (Phonograph - Edison United Phonograph Co.). 1896. Motion Pictures - Raff & Gammon (D-96-19) This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of Raff & Gammon, which held the rights to market Edison's kinetoscope and films in the United States and Canada. Included are letters about the firm’s attempt to obtain boxing films controlled by the Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co. and the termination of Raff & Gammon’s agency by the Edison Manufacturing Co. 1896. Patents (D-96-20) This folder contains correspondence and other documents from Edison’s patent attorneys and agents relating to domestic and foreign patent applications, patent litigation, and other patent matters. Included are letters pertaining to patents for the kinetoscope, the phonograph, and ore milling machinery. There is also a translation of Charles Weyher’s 1880 French patent on the phonograph. Most of the letters are by Richard N. Dyer and the law firm of Dyer & Driscoll. 1896. Phonograph - General (D-96-21) This folder contains correspondence about the technical and commercial development of the phonograph. Included are letters about the cancellation of Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co. contracts and stock certificates, and the settlement of a suit between the Edison United Phonograph Co., the North American Phonograph Co., and the Edison Phonograph Works. Many of the letters are by Richard N. Dyer, Edison’s attorney. 1896. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Works (D-96-22) [not filmed] This folder contains routine correspondence and other documents relating to orders and shipments of phonograph supplies. 1896. Phonograph - Edison United Phonograph Company (D-96-23) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Edison United Phonograph Co. Included are letters pertainingto the formation of phonograph syndicates in France and Italy; the organization of the Deutsche Edison Phonograpben Gesellschaft; and the operations of the British phonograph syndicate, the Edison-Bcll Phonograph Corporation, Ltd. Some of the items deal with efforts to reorganize the E.U.P.C.;othcr letters discuss technical problems with the phonograph. At the end of the folder is a two-page statement of the company’s assets. Many of the letters in this folder were authored by, or sent to, Stephen F. Moriarty, the company’s general manager; among these is a lengthy letter to Senator Thomas C. Platt regarding the histoiy of the E.U.P.C. and its relationship with Edison. Other correspondents include G. N. Morison, secretary or the E.U.P.C.; William A. Smith of the Edison-Bcll Phonograph Corporation; and Ludwig Stollwcrck of the Deutsche Edison Phonographcn Gcscilschaft. 1896. Phonograph - National Phonograph Company (D-96-24) This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to the business of the National Phonograph Co., which was organized in 1896. Included are letters concerning the assignment to the company of Edison’s claims against the North American Phonograph Co. There are also letters regarding Edison’s marketing strategies; his efforts to develop a cheaper phonograph; and the role of Maguire & Baucus as general sales agents for the phonograph. 1896. Phonograph - North American Phonograph Company (D-96-25) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the North American Phonograph Co., which went into receivership in 1894. Included are letters about the claims of Edison and others against the company and about arrangements to auction its assets. Among the correspondents is John R. Hardin, receiver of the company. 1896. Phonograph - Ott Manufacturing Company (D-96-26) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Ott Manufacturing Co., which was organized by Edison and others to facilitate the transfer of assets from the North American Phonograph Co. to the National Phonograph Co. Included arc letters about the appointment of company officers and a copy of the company by-laws. 1896. Telegraph - General (D-96-27) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the technical and commercial development of the telegraph. Included are letters pertaining to Edison’s and George Harrington’s lawsuit against Jay Gould and the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. There is also an item regarding the transfer of Edison’s rights to his facsimile telegraph to publisher William Randolph Hearst and a letter from Josiah C. Reiff discussing the death of Edison’s father, Samuel. 1896. Telegraph - Phonoplex (D-96-28) [not filmed] This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to the Edison Phonoplex System of Telegraphy. The daily operations of this company were conducted by W. S. Loguc and received very little attention from Edison. Most of the documents arc routine letters regarding the sale and service of phonoplex circuits to the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Cb. and the National Transit Co. There are also documents relating to an advertisement in Telegraph Age. 1896. Telephone (D-96-29) [not filmed] This folder contains routine letters of transmittal accompanying royalty payments to Edison from the American Bell Telephone Co. 1896. West Orange Laboratory (D-96-30) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to operations at the West Orange laboratory. Included are letters about experiments on Heniy L. Brevoort’s process for waterproofing fabrics by electricity. There are also documents relating to fire and safety inspections of the laboratoiy for insurance purposes. At the end of the folder are two lists of chemical orders, compiled by Edison. 1896. X-Rays (D-96-31) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the development of x-ray technology. Included are items about Edison’s experiments with x-ray equipment, the Crooke’s tube, and the fluoroscope; and documents regarding the use of x-rays in hardening aluminum. There are also letters about the medical applications of x-rays and inquiries concerning the commercial availability of x-ray equipment. Many of the letters are unsolicited inquiries that received a significant response from Edison. Related items can be found in numerous folders throughout the 1896 Document File. See, particularly, D-96-04 (Edison, T.A. - Articles); D-96-05 (Edison, T.A. - Clubs and Societies); D-96-09 (Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence- Business); and D-96-18 (Motion Pictures - Maguire & Baucus). 1896. Dick (A.B) Company (D-96-01) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the mimeograph business of the A. B. Dick Co. Some of the items pertain to a dispute between the company and J. Lewis Young over the unauthorized sale of mimeographs in Great Britain. Also included are a letter regarding Edison’s stock dividends, an annual financial report, and a comparative statement of sales and profits for the years 1889-1896. All the documents have been filmed. Statement of the business of the A. B. Dick Company, for year ending April 30th, 1896. Sales of Mdse, for the year, $233,406.50 Less Mdse, returned, $ 7,118.23 Less Allowances in settlements, 1,498.67 Less Cash Discount on Mdse . sold, 883,05 9,499.95 Net amount Mdse, sold, 223,906.55 CONTRA. Inventory of Mdse, on hand at commencement of year, 53,104.38 Cost of Mdse, purchased during fiscal year, 75,653.93 Total Cost of Mdse, sold and on — hand, including Labor and Material, 128,758.31 Less Inventory of stock on hand, April 30th, 1896, 52,683.31 Actual SHOP cost of Mdse, sold, 76,075.00 Add Royalties paid on same , 6,036.73 Total cost of Mdse, sold. 82,111.73 Less Cash Discount on material purchased, 275.65 • i-.vtj'- Net cost of Mdse, sold, 81. 836’. 08 ' GROSS PROFIT for the year, 142,070.47 GENERAL EXPENSES . Salary, . f ■ 22,082.44 Expense- accouiitj-proper , — 12, 633-. 61 — — ■ — ' Atlanta Pair Exposition, 1,445.36 Advertising account, 2,500.89 New York & Philadelphia expense account , 19,817.90 Interest and Exchange and Collection expense, 1,450,02 Commission account. 3,942.48 ■ Total General Expense, 63,872.70 ' ACTUAL PROFIT on Mdse, sold 78,197.77 EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSE. Patent Litigation Expense, 16,594.42 61,603.35 Accounts charged to Profit and Loss during the year, .557,12 . 61,046.23 Add Royalties received from Licencees, 1,180.77 Total NET GAIN for year, 62,227.00 Undivided profits in surplus account , ' / ' ' ' ■ ^ 145,850.44 Total undivided profits April 30th,' 1896.j 208,077^44 V » Statement of Assets and Liabilities of A. B. Dick Company, April 30th, 1896. ASSETS . Cash on hand for current uses, Dividend Fund Reserved, Accounts and Bills Receivable, Mdse, on hand as per Inventory, Office Fixtures at Chicago and New York City, Special Tools, Pomeroy Duplicator Stock, Contract and Patent account, § 10,271.13 55,720.45 136,097.74 52,683.31 3,177-. 66 7,156-. 93 2,500.00 456.000.00 §723,607.22 LIABILITIES. Unmatured Bills and Accounts, Capital Stock, Undivided Profits in Surplus Account April 30th, 1895, Undivided Profits earned in year ending April 30th, 1896, 15,529.78 500,000.00 145,850.44 62,227.00 §723,607.22 Comparative Statement of Sales for years ending April 30th 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896. Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1889, $ 79,422.28 Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1890, 113,103.45 Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1891, 152,817.91 Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1892, 210,922.30 Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1893, 217,545.90 Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1894, 208,012.12 Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1895, 201,430.46 Total net sales for year ending April 30th, 1896, 223,906.55 Comparative Statement of Net Profits for years ending April 30th 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896. Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1889,$ 11,608.12 Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1890, 23,239.85 Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1891, 30,215.01 Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1892, 57,049.72 Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1893, 66,151707" Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1894, 46,906.90. Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1895, 45,875.67 Total net profit for year ending April 30th, 1896, 62,227.00 Thomas Alva Edison Esq. The Laboratory Orange, N.J. &3'' . ‘‘ 67, P 0 RE SIR E E T, • L 0 N D 0 N, E. C. August 19th 1 896. wl11 B .. I.havo t? write you again on a subject which I trust you will do me the favor of properly considering and advising me thereon. , - . ‘-y reason for writing you is the issuing of a circular by Mr A.B. Dick dated June 24th 1896, and which I enclose herev/ith. t-v.nl- ,,?-.re5frn8vth0 £ir8t letter which is dated 6th July I think the WH1+5lnd4.5y r!f?rence that should have been 6th July 1892, the dates of the other letters appear quite correct. * of the ftLv^nt-v special point of calling your attention to the date vo„ e 1 ??r from yourself to Mr A.B. Dick because I have to give you some information and particulars about that. “ Mr Dick Who wnn wtfh f16*1 l m*3 'vith Gauraud at Edison House I met hv ri with Mr Tate and Mr Dyer. Mr Dick was introduced to me hL"ftT 4 n a son tl ornan who was a very great friend of yours, and who had financed you very considerably in the past, and thut he had obtained from you the sole rights of the Mimeograph throughout the world, v * n Dick told mQ m06t distinctly that tho Mimeograph was na- and hfda«L°Hen -the world* ^ had sent a mimeograph tf Coi. Qouraud and had asked Col. Gouraud to take up the sale of it. but for some r«n«inn ;“CS 1 ?° T 1 "houfd -» « tn^T0" thn r,i»n°j!»ivhe»l!nder8tanv,,s and assurance by Mr Diek and Mr Tate that oSside of the Un?t^°lvrvy pr?t8cted la ull the countries of the world ' °r tk® United States, I took up the sale of it, agreeing to pay Mr Dick a certain sum for machines and supplies. SPY ^fter..1 had atarted in the business some considerable time I in r0MrdbtoatMR8™!tfUCOatOAWo^f’ and 1 communicated with Mr Dick I was to defend ?ha aevfA an nf?rrned m® by cable and otherwise that natonted and further that the mimeograph was properly $!ta",.!d^nd pr?teoted» and be would assure me the necfsaarv protector!7 largely advertised the business? I had left “udanHe^ted $2 whole °f my time to the Mimeograph business, and it was not until a days before the trial and the action that Mr Dick had to admit fw * Thoa. A. Edison i to America that ao far aa ha Know r.:r Dick's contract a copy of which ho save me, with yourself only referred to Amor lea in which country you hafi patents. That being tho caos I had to mako a compromise with tho people who were suing me, and of course I found that that I had mado a contract with Mr Dick for soma thing which he did not possess, and a’ so bound mysolf in such a way which night hove prevented me doin^ any bun inass in that particular lino. I went to America and saw Mr Dick, and ,1 asked him if he would agree to the formation of a Company with say §280,000 capital, and he to take some interest in that Company, and in spite of the falsehoods whicn he had told me, and tho bad position in which he hud placed me, I saio that I would go on with the buoinoso. v . this time through the expenditure of time, energy, and money I had created quite a nice little business, not a large one, becauoC the copying apparatus business in this country had boon thoroughly worked out from tho year 1374, and therefore the business was extremely diffi¬ cult to do, so much so that tho profits were more than absorbed in ex¬ penses. In 1892 in order to get the requisite capital and to satisfy persons who had interested themselves in the business I formed a Coy. called "The J.L. Young .Manufacturing Co." and I went on for some consider¬ able time purchasing goods of Mr Dick with apparently no protection, although I informed him from time to time that in consequence of tho Action of Zuccato & v/oollf, and the publicity which was then given to the matter, a number of other pooplo were making mimeographs and supplies and selling thorn at j’rices which would not permit no to compote, and I therefore asked him to aoo if he could not arrange to reduce the old prices or to make such a binding arrangement with me as would eermit of our successfully competing with those other parties. tjr Jiick ignored all these representations on my part, and find¬ ing that I had worked up some kind of a trade he appears to have in¬ stigated to Ur Phillip Dyer, who I know and beliove to be a very honora- ble man, and a Mr Eenborg to visit all my customers. It upooars that Mr Dick had given Eenborg and Dyer u kind of commission agency to sell mimeographs in quantities, and he offered them good inducement to our- chaso them. Messrs Dyer & Eonberg never spent 6d. in advertising* or pushing the business beyond going round to such parties that I had intro¬ duced the parties tc, and endeavoring to switch their orders from me to them, and at last Messrs Dyer & Eenborg finding that thoir business in a?d aJSeWi?9r£ Wa® kill0a the competition and the prices came to Victoria Street, 'ffestminstor and took a large office there, while I was still working with Mr Dick, and both Mr Eenborg and fir Dyer went to ill my customers and offered them tho mimeograph at something like §1 on cost, and Supplies at Just about the price that I was paying Dick. Aho result of this was that the whole of these people whom ho had visit¬ ed refused to purchase any more mimeographs of me without they could got them at the same price aB they could buy them of Dyor. I pointed out to these various parties that I had spent and was spending a large amount of money in advertising the mimeograph, that all orders they received for mimeographs and supplies come through my Thos. A. Edison Esq. 5. advertising and not through their own personal, work, and that further I was not in the same position as Dyer and Eenberg merely soiling on com¬ mission without any exploitation expenses, and it was impossible for me to sell the goods at Dyer's prices excopt I had had little or no trouble to get the business. My expenses which resulted in a loss up till that time v/ero between £5000 and £6000. I wrote to Mr Dick complaining of this and telling him that I did not think it was fair business, and that I stood ready at any time to do anything that was fair and reasonable to work harmoniously togeth¬ er and to practically got that which I was entitlod to, after having made such a large outlay on the business. Mr Dick in the Summer of 1692 came to London and culled upon me in Fore Street, and said "I will tell you what it is Young, 1 thinkthat 4# you can make the mimeograph over here Just as cheap as I cun moke it in America, and I will sell you my business for §25000." I saw my Directors about the matter, and ultimately our Soli¬ citor wrote a letter to Mr Dick and asked him what it was he proposed to sell for §25000, as we considered that seeing that there was no patents on the Mimeograph, that anybody who could make it could do so without lot or hindrance, that since the Action of Zucoato & Woollf's, and Mr Dick's climb down in regard to the patents which he was supposed to possess a number of other people had started in the business, and therefore we could not see what claim he could make upon us. In the end Mr Dick called in and in the presence of myself and two of the Directors of this Company informed us that ho had no business to sell, but that he wanted §25000 as a kind of bonus to prevent him going into opposition. Of course that was rathor a large order, see¬ ing that we had made no money whatever out of the business, that we had spent a great deal, that the prices of mimeographs had been broken up in consequence of the action of Eenberg & Dyer, and a number of other ma¬ chines had appeared on the market, and we had no special protection of the mimeograph. Wo therefore told him that seeing that he had no rights he had no rights to soil, and therefore wo could not see for what he could make a claim upon us. In the letter of tho 6th July which I submit is 1892 you will find that my letter to Dick is in connection with this matter, and Mr Tate informed me when I went to America principally on this matter, and while I wished to see you, everything was done in the Laboratory and elsewhere to prevent me gaining access to you, because although Mr Tate, whom I believe was somewhat bound to fir Dick, could see that per¬ fectly well that I should make such an explanation to you as would ensure your proper attention to the matter. When Mr Tate found that I was so very persistent in the matter he told me that when fir Edison gave the license to Mr Dick. a copy of it I had obtained from Messrs Dick & Seeley, Mr Edison wob under the impression that ho had patents all over the world, and that the mimeograph was properly protected by patents, but as it has turned out he has no patents then you have just as much right to sell the mimeograph as anybody else", and ho told me that he had seen you on the matter and that you had made no demur at all about it. Thos. A. Edison Esq. 4 I was still ordering mimeographs and supplies from Mr Dick, and Dick evidently not believing what I told him that other people were making the mimeograph here and selling it, refused to supply me with any more goods for no reason v/hatsver, except that I had resented the treatment by Messrs Dyer & Eenberg at Mr Dicks instigation, and there¬ fore this Company was compelled to go on with the business, and have had since the year 1893 the mimeograph and supplies made, and have sold thorn. Ihe business in the mimeograph has not been a very large one becauae as the largest purchasers of mimeographs, the Typewriter Com¬ panies, having discovered that there wore no patents in the mimeograph at all, had got some of the other parties whom I have referred to to make mimeographs for them, and each one of the Typewriter Companies wore putting out machines, similar in all reapects to the mimeograph, In fact the exact copy of it, under the name of Remington, and Yost Duplicators, and so forth. Consequently the v/hole of the trade in those things practically through Eenberg’ s action, and the litigation which I have referred to so far as this Company is concerned ceased, and all the ex¬ penses for advertising, &c. only benefited other people. In 1893 I went to America with my wife, and I endeavored to see you about this matter. I saw Mr Tate and 'he told me quite a number of things, and as I looked upon him as a responsible party, I believed, not only in regard to the mimeograph but aleo the phonograph business, and in regard to this .phonograph business I may have to write you again giving you some information of which I do not believe you are possessed, which will explain my position in the matter. But I would say this, that so far as the phonograph business is concerned I absolutely went into that purely on-; the strength of a long cable which I received from Mr Tate inviting me: to go into it, and you may gather how surprised I was to find Mr Tate .over here in opposition although lir Tate had been with me in America for several weeks together, and also here in Iiondon and he had told. me that ho did not intend to be in opposition to me, but simply was working ;ine as^a lever against the Edison United and the Edison Bell. However,'. I, ’believe that your letter of the 6th July was written entirely under a misapprehension, and without any knowledge of the facts which I have now placed before you, although I have several times tried to put these fact6 before you, and on one occasion I sont a letter to Mr Sam Instill whom I know very well, and asked him to hand it to you to ensure .your getting it, but I believe that in some way Insull was bound to Dick, and therefore you did not- got it. What I complain of now is the publication of this letter men¬ tioning my name, which is directed exclusively against me, and you will see that Dick haB a very happy knack of making use of this correspondence which has nothing* whatever to do with the present position of affairs. You will:, see in the letter of June 24th that Dick further de¬ clares it to te "our intention to prosecute all infringers of our pa¬ tents" Now I have already explained to you that Dick has admitted that he has no patents, that the only patent that he has here is one taken ThOS. A. Edison Esq. 5. / . ' u-/ et'Ut- L'A&'i'L.^L.er l "3 ‘i- ' . 'sri> ^ y/J/ cr- •SyJZXl ^g£ / J - fc. & £„ Edison Building, 44 Broad Street. Thoa. A. Edison, Esq. Orange, N. j Dear Sir:- New Y ork, - JtacoiL jjauu___ -..189 ^ r -- 9 ir\ Mr. Parmele was In this mornine'and I have sold him for your account 4008 shares of the StocE of the Edison Electric light Oo. of Europe limited, at S 1.00 per sh.re net to you and he .111 be ready to pay for the same on Monday next, the 23rd inst. . ...-( ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE COMPANY. Thos, X. Edison, Esq,, Orange, N . J. My Dear Edison S I have your letter of the 2nd inst, to Mr, Klein, en¬ closing oheak for $12, 550.00 in payment of your three notes, which I return herewith, and for which I beg to thank you. If I can be of any assistance' to you at any time, I hope you will not be bashful in calling on me, as I will be only too glad to accomodate you. enclosures Yours very t» ly. J/l 5='-^<^«2o (b Hr* S«* 5o* Increase lu paid q/ Y&. 'r-e. aC. r<*_ yGL-'/'A tr-l/fy' Z^~ - J^. Jjj(_, ^7-L. «X. /UL > A‘ fa 'KrOZ /£& ^ y^x. /iusr^x-j j YYLj ^ j If you should find it inconvenient to be present, we would be glad to have you send a j telegram addressed to me, to be forwarded to Jthe distinguished Professor at Glasgow. I . ' ' • j! Mr. T. A. Edison, Orange, N.J. [ENCLOSURE] Your presence is respectfully requested at the Comnercial Cable Company’s offices, 253 Broadway, between 3 and 6.30 o’clock on Monday afternoon, June 15th, to take part in the jubilee celebrations of lord Kelvin’s professoriate, of Glasgow University. To bring Lord Kelvin and his friends and admirers in close comnunication a telegraph circuit will be established by means of the Comnercial Cable Company's system with the hall at Glasgow in which the exercises are hold- Pros ident . jPift t .Deo. 11,1896. / U-- [An s. Hy dear Sir;- On Nov. 30th, I mailed ypu j' 'i3Si j Thomas A. Edison, Menlo Park.N. J. i'-wvs. ^'iptte^ycc^py' of which I here¬ with enclose, but up to the present writing no reply from you has been received. Fearing that the first may have miscarried in the mails, I take the liberty of sending you a duplicate. I only voice the sentiment of the people of this city when I say they would feel highly honored if you would accept^the Invitation extend¬ ed. ( It is their desire to have as much time as possible to arrange fpr the reception and entertainment. / / . X c£.uX Hoping that this will reaeh^you and brdng forth an early^esponse. [ENCLOSURE] MAYOR'S OFFICE. « f. wagenseil. yPo'it jMWn, Nov. 30,1696, Thos. A . Edison, My dear Sir;- Many of tha citiaens of Port Huroo,part|o^l9y^ older residents who knew you In your boyhood days and fa tested yoiir advancement since,deslre to celebrate the anniversary of y^|ir birthday and therefore request your presence on that occasion. Z u^jeretapd that you will reach your 60th berthday,- the half century || an active and useful life,- on February 11th next. Our people feel that It would be appropriate at that tl$^d to tender you a banquet at the Harrington House, a large fine hotel which fas opened to the public last May. It Is the intention to make the occasion some¬ what national in its character by inviting some of the Bfost prominent men both in politics and science, to attend and take part. But before any move oan be made in that difection,it Is necessary to know positively whether you can be with us or not. You know that the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out would be uninteresting. Port Huron is where you spent your boyhood dayB,tbe place wbere(when a mere lad, you first commenced, in a rude way, to experiment in electricity little dreaming dfc that time, you would reaoh the position yon now hold ^n the scientific world. Our people feel that notwithstanding you havp r$f moved to a larger field of action, you are still one of us. _A|j^’the|| T.A. - /to jfCii'ion, (MU., . ■' . years they hays watched your wonderful progress and hflVf^ ^Xfays tpfcan a lively interest in your achievements. We are considering another proposltion,which in my Qjpin^pjuwiU be accepted by our citizens without a single dissenting voice, The house in which you lived and the grounds upon which it stppd yon played with your youthful companions ape now a part of Pine Grows Perk an at¬ tractive spot on the St. Clair River, where thousands duj*jlng the heated term resort. It is proposed that the name bo changed t| ^dison Fark,and sometime in the future to ereot a large electric tower, jijbe foot of which could be utilized as a museum to display all your electrical and other inventions, as well as other articles of interest connected with electri¬ cal science. It is proposed to make the tower hi#* enough and the lights powerful enough to be seen far out on Lake Huron to the north. I desire to say that the foregoing was suggested by Ufa. S.L.Ballen- t£ne,which were accepted by pur representative citizens, Now with these objects in view, as well as pur desire to honor yoji as proposed,you will see why we want you to be fitfa us. Please take this mattey under serious consideration, and jjlo not fail to accept the earnest invitation of your tfldLfrienda and admirers at your earliest possible convenience. Very truly ff &■<$*.> OA.J LUCIEN EARLE ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW In Thomas A. Edison Esq New York. My Dear Sir: I notice by the 'Street Railway law by Boo-th",that you gave your testimony in- the case of Pelton V. East Clevland R.R.CO, decided in 1890, case reported in 22 W.L.B.page 67;but unfortunate¬ ly, the report does not include your testimony. I am informed that the same is accessible in pamphlet ftorm. I write to you to request that you send to me ^this pamphlet, if you have an extra cop to spare; if you do not ha® it will you inform me, where I can get a copy. I ) * £- ' A/ foo a-o P cf hcr Mu. Ho itt -Om ^<&LArVv^' AsWtK-J ‘2— Mr. T.A.RdiBon, South Orange, N.J. Dear Sirj- In our coming Issue we expect to publish a number of photo¬ graphic reproductions of dark wave photographs and should like very muoh to include among them one or more taken in your laboratory, If you will kindly send us a print, or request one of your assistants to telephone us when we‘ might have it we shall feel under very many obli¬ gations. Very truly yours. \X>C^V^ trts lUt. *LlLu~, V j ^ yzrzrzrf, ase a/^^. 7%\Igl/{~ COv^dL gZ-^ £z^6~ (\J2^u^&& jjirvu go fc£r- /v c<^> ^l-c^c fZcZ^k. cx^> r 2^_^r - dc^,/£z?- cf'z^JL . Z^-X^Z ^ &ds ^rtL Ko^w w ia tluL>o^rM i-4 pY-o-6o-(fr Cm Corvyic^ [fcztdr ^ L-uj-L* — ^••llCt vi^r. *~»- lUx- ‘kj.fcz* — S-<^- X-irvTM. t^cj^ [incorporated.] The Associated Literary Press. McClure’s Magazine. S. S. McCLURE, President. JOHN S. PHILLIPS, Treasurer. ALBERT B. BRADY, Secretary. 5. S. McClure, Limited, 30 Lafayette Place, New York City. CABLE ADDRESS, “Alddecamp. New York." LONDON OFFICE: 33 BEDFORD ST.. COVENT OARDEN. Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N. J. My dear Sir: , Esq., j'j'" New York, Peb. 11, 1896. pt V? VVV*Uv. X We shall publish in the April number of Me Clure's Magazine an article about Prof. Roentgen and his discovery, with pictures made by him. This article is obtained by a representative of Me Clure's that we sent from London to Vienna as soon a«‘ the first news of this discovery came to America. we have not yet received the article, but we have a cablegram stating that it is on the way here. We wish to supplement this article with an ac¬ count of the experiments made in the United States, ahd with reproduc¬ tions .of some of the pictures made here by the Roentgen method or by developments of it, such as you have yourself devised. I will be very much obliged if you will give us the privilege of sending Someone of our writers to you to talk with you about this matter, and we will be further indebted if you will let us have the use of some of the photographs you have made. We want to have the American experiments land ideas represented. I. have read with inter¬ est the accounts in the newspaper* of what you are doing, and if you will make. an appointment we will send: a good man to talk with you. will be submitted to you for your revision if you desire it. Proof iJ The Jau^al of Nervous and Mental Disease. / -4 W C CHAS. HENRY BROWN, M. D. ^ "“vj^ ^cAoaloy /Z^/PftZ-. ""‘Si" ' d. ■ — <=ii — Published at 14 Lafayette Place. 1/W ^ . . _ Lt>-Cv.<^. jf c<_rc^-£v 1tv<5 X. Jl'yr. / luryLst^o C?i — V <3^3L- c^^^<2- L.vv,^-wfe ^ pk ‘ ■ f^Wtladl .co-ofy rr* pi^Liio ^<' $,ULc[ /umUfi( fi^uPtXj CUU+.JI euAi oJ S^TOL^su^^f Jnn~ ?^s- "^(W- c/L) T^U.ed> z^-^irZiJ! G&'ZO -S^A^W adzn+sf^t/f- J-tcl ZZU^C^ aj ^CusV- r^^rtrtUMT, &e£^^ie^cAX£^ ^-yfctAso r , J/ J • 7kJn-u-am / £- /£%& So. M*ms ' , d t' " - . Q%tcout& c'/i d . ' (jA-CML ^ : t*fcfo;4Ly %)u^0 'm, b- jr i . j^r • «*••• i:YL^J£ r ''7 W- 'f?6 I'Utii HAsyii <%%J-rr , aX«L(_J C\ ^ '(^^Cri^^L ^^/^V'V^V.'ffvPWv cT 'Cfth^ J3-i^>- S,r- ; — . J . ^ts^*** '7?>tnu*ay JcU>J~J NS//Taf Jc^r- \ ■fasUrx/M'F £ f4faJU aJC-Ctel vo c^df/JaJ.oujfrjJ'i **4^ Oj s -/i/fa hlcii}<^ i/j^cdurut VJUjajhaZ njftrf<. jj)~£xssL / $Ua. CU-U.-J jn-yiil 5 fXi X>vu dt 0-triO- 717 l hfo^M ^JyysUTH utd' ft | a* you- MWi tfaMjJafc j ’jytlki //vw 'Yin iMwltiityt mtZ - a (rtdrcL Jt / h 'to lour eu^a'Jatvk A~ Jtrr Js/e/nnS X yov/roy ^trr a . J^.ri-00 * oa twui - aXL \ Ifrf/t o^jx, jottuL - ■yurt’ yJ/ttuK , /f~ an.(y i hfil fa e*4(~lttul h Jat*r OtoJ'cf kfl&u/fckj ytru Jvryvw /(u< €L ; ! h*u?ts^fcsL^ j A^X^U^. | Xn^y 1 ■ T^r '-^r ^ - z/X^: Xui^ 1 Will you kindly tell the Journal about the queerest experi- rience you ever had in your tests with electrioity, the queerest prank the fluid every played? The Roentgen ray was discovered in a large measure by accident. May not some of the queer phenomena observed by you lead to similar important results in the future? In your opinion, how far have the possibilities of eleotrie ity in the arts and sciences been developed? May we hope in the fu¬ ture to signal to the other planets by means of this force? Will it be possible to transmit pictures or photographs at long distance over a wire or otherwise by means of electricity, just as we now transmit the human voice at a long distance over the telephone? Is it probable that we will be able to see at long distance, as we now hear at long distance? May we not expect to penetrate the bowels of the earth to any depth, as we now penetrate apparently solid substances by means of electricity? Do you think that we may expect in the near future to travel at sea as fast or faster than we now travel on land by the development of the electrical forces in machinery? Will the speed now made by steam locomotives be far exceeded by electricity? What do you consider are the speed limits of electrical engines? What will be the effect on the climatic conditions when electricity comes into general use? Will the seasons be at all af¬ fected by the electrical discharges in the atmosphere? Will it make conditions healthier or the reverse? Will it affect our plants and our forests? Do you think we will be able to see to the bottom of the ocean by electrical forces as yet undeveloped and unknown? Will we be able to penetrate the great £og banks that now impede and make dangerous travel by sea? We take the liberty of burdening you with these questions because you are one of the great authorities on electrioity. Any statement you may be good enough to make will be most eagerly read by the Journal’s subscribers. That there may be no mistake in getting the facts down exactly as you write them, we will; send you a proof- before publication. Should any other suggestions of the possibilities of electricity occur to you, won’t you1 be good enough to set them down? ! Very sincerely yours, Inquiries from- correspondents ofVANITYprorapt/' me to write to ask. you whether the disoovory of Mr. r:' . , 1 ' l( , . // d 'Iftf reville reported in the Electrical Engineer of re- . oent issue whereby the - ul tra- vio l et rays .of the : spe ot.rum-' : ;.i for the purpose of seeing and photographing .in the dark : • prove of practical value." .1 enoloso a column artiole ■ " " ! the Evening Sun ^of Saturday bearing: upon this subject • "■ ’ which explains itsolf . Tho purpose of my inquiry is not occasioned hy • . ; any doubts as. to the genuineness of.Mr.. a'l^frevillo's disoovory' but' • V, .' i rather as to the possibility of its use in demonstrating 'the utility of ' 1 the spool rum adding what is practically a new faoulty to those which wo " already possess. The familiar, domestic maxim that .cats can see it the ■'' ' •d^rk' suggests- the possibility, that other animals, indeed Individuals -may .pqsses a. the same power. As "a commentary upon. this 'suggest ion, it is stated by Pr. ".7. -I. . Birchmoro of Brooklyn, who has been. experimenting • : ' with tho'x rays, . that thenr are atUohst .four, kinds of. light waves of . - the. s^ie' length, .all of which differ^n ^ act^ and • some, of which .the eye does not perceive. at all. if there are some rays imperceptible to the human eye without the aid of tho spectrum ; r,J are rendered perceptible; to /it^throug ha c u are utilized is likely to olipped from •Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ■ possible that there are ojfcher rays perceptible only to' ■’.'•'i,; the eyes of certain animals .or certain human beings? Upping that I have,, made, myself, ,olea(r and that you will .do me the favor of giving an answer to this- ■ question, I .an, ^ v ;■> ; • .Very sincerely 'yours,.'. '• JjccszA-Va*+ at ■L~- — ;:.V ju du Crv^ ■ :L * ITSC -<*i rrfev . -rf- 11 ^ t i-.- • rX--K tr^- ~ [incorporated.] EDITORIAL P lElertriraX WatUi 053 ?Jxxmittir;eg, l^eluyoRk. Mr. T. A. Edison, South Orange, N.J. ’ Dear Slrs- Bolleving that It would be very desirable to have an authorl- ^ tntlve expression of opinion in regard to the name which should be ap- f I piled to the shadow prints taken by means of Rontgen rays, we shall be d \ much pleased if you will kindly favor us with your views on the subject.'* j It Is unnecessary to refer to the unsatisfactory condition ^ ^ now existing on account of the large number of names in use, none of r* which has as yet received such a general indorsement as would Justify It being given sole recognition. • Below we give a list of soma of the *~-~ ^jpr^~ , o' <2~~- '^4^ e^u^cc -A^toALs, /UcAa^_c^ . . . >5 -2> o^~ crtro ^t-CjpL^ Q-<>-'f~-Le-^> • Ariu-nyj* llx (IU™-*-*- )f* *« 4 A~w—A /4 JL~~° £L*Jt-7> po-~ &f,^- k &~—£y ££+-* Y ^ 36 y jtrr-t+£^ £jyryy^? &T>Jl^t. PfinTJLZ-A y^ ‘5*uy~IZlu. ' Ay 7)^1^ L L~~: Cftt? pAjfc. 0t£^t*r> — * A A*-*'1- * yLy V A1-’ (Opjfcj-^c^ ^ «/<^~<^ - YY j Y^' ^ VlL\ ^ ‘A"v Z* /5^ j ,/U ^ Out^r-J- *f *jh. j j / s^-y Ljl~J^*^ £rU-*^>- A' ^ 7 , , / ; A ' /' «vtf. /A ^r* 4J-rr~C^ A— /W- y U, * ^ iL^'tc, >*« ^ Z. &A 6~A- Q $-***/” *^Z^^4a.c uttmfiS 4>c c-v-^ i 'i» l«"fe U~rXi R i/ / f coo- ^ 6, =^-' ^ Ui*£c~-^' ***■ — l"^-'t ■'U<:>V^J t«i ' r y G^eSU-^ 6 L CXr~ •■ f G^ 6> tf world. Modesty will not permit me to tell you what £hisypaperVis,.but you know. With regards, Very .sincerely yours,' ’gMlElPW I Editorial -Rooms. _AfiS.il_.lAM, . .18.9.8, _ _ Thomas Edison, Esq. , Llewellyn Park, N.J. Dear Sir: • The morning papers announce that Professors Pratt and Wightman, of Chicago, have proved that the Roentgen ray is fatal to the bacilli. of cholera, tuberculosis, anthrax, Ac. I remember that you advanced the theory sometime ago, that such might prove to be the case. ELECTRICITY would appreciate it very highly, if you would express, for the benefit of its reader? your opinion bn the genuine¬ ness of this alleged discovery. Yours very truly. Editor. 7 it ^ American Electrician, Electrical Industries. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ,;£**ifi£''lP'9a9* rpl^ipssni&f-* Wot conten tals the incandescent llhril^tb e_ fluoroscope, avid a dozen and „ fc'fl to S-CC- I « pjaiBosas-rfro -mdlre_-t;itfvdinTht expects literally to t'VZ-'-o tUi. y r- ■ f ■ - Ediso: & with giving to mor- e, , the kinetoscope, the o|her no tab 1 ^inventions, Mr i through at A * mortem examination has been necessary in mysterious make-up of some people. Now iult will be secfured by i 'der to understand— the UU^K ioweyer, the same re- te-mortem examination. By virtue of t 'f f » n > present find r the secrets o^f the human prison-house can be diselosed before breath leaves the body, I The Wizard has jur4- J- - f- i his- U&ij« * k* lesscLea^E; ^ ",""1 1 — P|ark that promises to uw- ‘\ rgery and ev.en the t^oader domain~bT' science. ~4, Indeed, to be „ perfectly i mart, great possibil- e, Mr Edison has succeeded uracturing a \iumber of new crystals which, j . ; vi / A ltxes^with the fluoroscope. But ^several of, them in particular hold out the largest hope in th.fcjw.ay of enlarging the horison1' of Pw ,cL,{y~i-eJ. w-v>— < ' ' , ’ human vision, aa,d„,sibins;sd.^th4-t-the-d«v.. vB- rvn-T— r;n^i.,-g-I Orltl- whon ■ Mi x_ejien-'-thg>ji^fld^Tn'S^rnraTe^i-ghtC To give a resume of Mr Edis. i’s latent researches . ords: “I hope < s of.; these days > show you ?he position < condition of every orgaji in your bcj^y. 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( 1r^ >4-0-li*> , . u - - 0,. r * - ^ i^pJs V (P_^_ ^ c^^JZZM — X -X^, -s°T/-i ip'c^T/- *£-*-_ <5^^n_ Lsr-^^- o Q c-<^-^. -«a^i ^ A ^ t\j-^s ,t— — "^^/^/v /fc<3 'jyifie- '-X-vw, «/9f€4 ( **"*•'&*£’ ^ /uA_Aww|Xi~ ^.'o^>. a k*-^w (£«>*- , t-o J2. aa*. ^tuU'o J^fr i^> ':^v *}*£ «>.. — f- -L^^f S^a«„ ^ ./>- /-JLj »J-Xjl^’* 1896. Edison, T.A. - Clubs and Societies (D-96-05) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison’s membership and activities in social clubs and professional societies. Some of the letters pertain to demonstrations or lectures on x-rays. Also included is a letter from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences regarding the award of the Rumford Medal. All the documents have been filmed except for 4 routine meeting announcements. %, (Or Zjf— w ** t* _rt--._ Thomas A. Edison Esq., J~~ .( . / r I ~cr%Z. •■-t-*-' Orange, New jersey. _ _ My d,„ sir:- ^ , XljLff Ss*®" f'K I am requested by the American' Philos opicalSooiety of Philadelphia to invite you to make a demonstration t?^£ur very interesting researches in the R^nt gen rays, on any first or third Priday in March or April. Your addience in the American Philosopieal Society would be small, but would con- tain^some of the beat people in our city, Should you so prefer it, I should be pleased to make any verbal presentation of your views that you might desire, putting you to give your entire attention to the demonstration. I am aware of the fact that you do not generally care for demonstrations of this character, but I trust you will see your way clear to make an exception of the case ■*w-e the American Philesopioal Society, the members of which I am sure will be charmed to meet you. Dr. Kennelly, who are you are aware is my partner. Joins me in the hope that you will see your way clear to accept 5. this invitation. Awaiting your reply, i am Very respectfully yours. j THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMP AH " Semper Urgent Alitor" (yV\ j'-W , |nmiatt Jtatag of §Utof mi, Jftkm#. /£?a&z: , ycOf+y ,a«a. ^ ntu^^c ^ ^y /of"" /Mla '?t£yui^Z(*C /Utt £} fCrCUCu^L U, " - <^%d*C yt •+<- t y^t/W; frfLu. ty<^ tCtoUct <2*7* Vifcfe &(*(***£■ -4 &£*-(- JtucC iU a^Ui.uk^ ef- tfhcwutv sf*S 4^«* a«*L ^T , ' . C^vUi uv ci'CtoA. t-U Cfcf\ Jod.ex.Ji " "6 _ ■ ; \ . lXw fLi-jt ^-[o-at M'L. 6'k^vv_(Li) d^ 'S- "i’^4 # CO-fv^v& ^|uCA.v^v Q Q^cLa^ k-2- j^z-us, c>- e. t'UL^ CX^b "ttli-w. k WJ-L l •£-'d) 6> Ej S 0) <2_ l\A 6‘ f jvT/v ..' Uvc2> UA-^-MAI 4® <5^-j V° ki^w. K ' 0~^c> *L ujtM L 6>%~ I^VVVd WO *>V • Ujr' p^3!-tc t,o ' , •-. ■ } , C/ . £e//ion < 'jVwi */ ■ '■ ':; ^ UA^V^&Jv^ • - V . « UfA-rG (■t>\*&$* -eJUv^) 5.. ; ■J4wu»y "hr «*> ft |Wu>*xfc ft*J v ^ kv* C^.W| Ua\ ^ C ' • ,|V^C-|o £ t> tJL~j Q6vyc) 1 ( kX^ir <^a^| 0^-(ectr.-^ ^-rt i k. ■ ; " ' i . , 51(C4-JU6 - -s ' J I . ’Pca.it. A ^ ' j; S'. ' „ N OYLAS-&dL,/v Gib'- O AsO- ‘■/■'7-/(^ ; ■ ■ Cl , ficLisQ. t-i i /v ■ v , . .' . Qaow-^ n ■ V , . ' CLUvoJsJj S fcLyvi/u y iTU'J -Auci C&tfZ&CoyuUL 7oilun.va£/o-f\c^ C'aA. OVMegV \yJ 7/0 (7^ y:\ W #***" h-H-t^u, s/cyvww jj' 0, C-L'l, \/ M/\/'-C'\s - _ . . . r/- . Jt0f w u>L^ ti^vVUA. urutt (l% IfuXj-. cw^ _ ?L Cu-lCL 6l- "Wu/te, U cuuviv^V' tdi— « yi^r '"“the WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. - INCORPORATED: - * - * 21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. . CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N.J. Dear Sir: Enclosed please, find two receipts for $37.50 each premium on yrour bonds as guardian of William S. Edison and Thomas A. Edisoni,Jr. Yours very truly, _L: :..::d»fla tiiMk? Ca IdStf ^01- M.E .M. [PHOTOCOPY] New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works. GENERAL OFFICES: EDISON'S LABORATORY, ORANGE, N. J. Edison, Sussex Co., N. J. -j— i - qi* J eon. £ J , 9 Axxfvj’vo-o-e. Xj C^IA. Cat ixo laLujx nyw. cma.cC JLoaJ14"- e. ~V^u.cj^l' ‘to -xjo-ci. ca_ cjc\xout~ rmcwccj "tvvvuL/? - ‘jcrw. 9 'S.CXaK. rtVO (TVUtAAA-O -JpO^ ott-e/y) -AAAaBx. a. AA«JVCj '"IzvYicl — ^ivc*/n.cl - of -fvfixcLOCnrvl" ryvAAyyvxo’vCjLO . 0 •KoaML njuusc\ ecrxcj jz. "fcvAJ-o ©\ "V^AXi "tvvww a uwcx. "Rt -Scmo -^tnx Gw. JYexo -t\v£Jl UJ-£L| -GU. A-fico-tjJcC nrvo4- /IAXQAxxcL Ox /Yw.a&Ux^ CL -fUj- ole^ ^CutfcxWlLj lexo (^ixclCJxLo -fV Axa^-oauC dM V AATMAxfco to do avoaat Co ic 4aaJ.-4&aw -fcb-V^^ol' CLcUmAdr^-e , UK. -c^uaU' -to o (UAATmTrVOX - drt4' 9 JUaA^L -^t- \$Ll -fcxvvu. "to J2le*^.e-cxu-cC 9 0.CAAVC /3<^ IV&iAA. U*L XcAJLC /O^aAi" '6ve_ e-ouJLcL. 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Jdj\ j n -dxcM-cX tvtnsKA. cai - -jifK v>c,-ofe, -!■*?« \ ««•. /a.Mf-Pcu^t iXvfl u +° ^ “'■* « -«* -m*i - €. j-~ 4. •«„,* * +•«•*«» -«?,». i. i, &t.| <’A““ ■f>"' +•—**»• o^ir^TWw •me.- lonlt, uiio^ IcoolcS dhu, iuitC,/ ofwon4L- exmA aaid To 4»txn -fktffeo - a^rid -folloto c4-^o loonS. New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works. GENERAL OFFICES: EDISON'S LABORATORY ORANGE, N. J. WORKS: Edison Office Telephone, 5 B Dover, N. J. Orange " " 31 1 Orange. Edison, Sussex Co., N. J. l|e ecrita imlt, rnanttn ewmooon+ ~+a c cx-o d najujj'fitiunam - a_e n ecxl l* m a -fijIutK -fcrt one u»6e&«o ~t^at -jiooi~tigv> - Clmd Haddock, co — ~«d -^°uo <=~vid mudouft Loo old r»r,d€!*_ a. fUalua^le <^<**<,11^- Co - ^ m,00|e of Lu^e. . He COPTIC. -Kcne OLO ccd acLtxq^tioancMf, _ covid -Kc.^ eav^/Jum^l ty ol^, a.Ew^-_ \vvfv-/;^ \w^J:,'^'r \i-lL- iwX L 0AA-tv-C^!c6 e^A ij.k-.~A e'-^ti-y' tp! " c;*7" S' J. ^ J . X .pN^X*/ J\ ED120M* 2H22EX CO'J M‘ T I/jV-M °]|]I^L'A YtfD [jEHMaArAVUIV 05MCOHXHVXIMG //y0KK8’ Iro^MOMW ' ”i’r' / New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works. New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works. GENERAL OFFICES: EDISON LABORATORY, ORANGE, N. J. Edison, Sussex Co., N. J., on n Loil cxrjC - To oo+ - ujo^ 1 1 /O^oold -€e CLrrwJ To <|&I inott? _ OO Offme +Kjvicj "ificit rrm^ ^vouilcji^e of iwruLnHa^un.i Ott&f a - <]o£o -J oof -poJ, _ cuniio loool d lead 'Kiw To Te.ll a 1«€ - Ouvn^l cj } c^vund un e . Catvw) e^ua^ll^ . I lsf+ orvo fOAUi^, , rmcj rmoot^ x>6ut cxjnJ liot&ned- cx/nd rm^ n>en JiqJCo- &J nm« to J o iT Arrtn OnOallon L| - I d i«J «a_o I 'V^ovxjTvf- ^coT- - cj wmnat^imc| e-loe -fo n ^ oo - I nejyna^rn ca,,C -^Arnd rije.c| Ij^uj ! ,'Jlc\As&U-iaJ asiAjy Jrt'O irv*. | Cy^^Lp^o JLys^/vO pj MLyr%^y*o \sy^s^c&c* aA tw <^Cca rvu~ XxO dd-ct^y (Lv^uhj- AjuL, X’A XaXy d 'XxAsC\JL, MaL ; A AJ^W^CLasiAJ ^ir^A/UU GLASV^CASxXf | (£A$TslAAS\) '/D^ 1jO A/\AA&qJ}\Ms a£-<_4 ,'6—A— A-Y*-K^X. .-fi_-> — »_<_*_ trr^JT ~ ' ' ~ 1' * uu~ YfY , / ^ ~£> . f^- ^ £« -5- . 2.0 <1jj2^, ’YSSiLt^h ?YXYYk u 1896. Edison, T.A. - Visitors (D-96-11) This folder contains requests to visit Edison or to tour the West Orange laboratory or company shops. Included are a letter regarding a prospective visit by Francis Jehl and Theodore Beran; and a letter of introduction by Thomas C. Martin. Substantive letters from individuals who visited the laboratory or company shops on business can be found in their appropriate subject folders. All the documents have been filmed. ulS)r F. HARDTMUTH & CO., - ifBpN.tp.^ (JfJA^TH, NACHOD A KUHNE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA. qj\^L ^ 1 Manufacturers of “THE CELEBRATED AUSTRIAN CARBONS,” AMERICAN BRANCH OFFICE, No. 60 Liberty Street, Thomas A. Edison Esq. Orange N.J. My Dear Mr .Edison :- New York, feb u t 0 ^ While I was at the office of the Gen Electric Co .yesterday Mr.Beran who is manager of the Supply Dept. expressed aiwish that he would like to see your laboratory and is also interested in what he has read from your X-rays experiments. I told him that I would write to you and see when it would be convenient and know you will have the kindness to let me know. At the same time I would like to ask you for a pass so that when we ar¬ rive at your laboratory we can get in. I may mention that I do business with the Gen Electric Co in selling them carbons, and you know it will tend to hold me in good relations by doing any favors I can as mentioned above in regards Mr.Bpnan. Knowing you will do thais favor to your old-time Francis, I remain Yours very truly b jtioCo Jlu&d /rwpT 'dwM' "fo deny Tdnr y^ct^- / „ / -d J • 0 'a v * -/ ■: Q&rU QVffUA <5-tRA>JU^\J (mVU>Jol* \jp\AA ofluJ> Ia-a. a Q^^a-Slu^ja^Jr ' ^ $'. O' f • " . V;H^ &}Q b.Qfz cuy> ifcstt — "tfc* (bux) ccM5-uH. aa^_T7Dsa ... "" c/c~k'OIStf~ 5-] ■ THE Electrical Engineer. A WEEKLY REVIEW OF THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ELECTRICITY. 1896. Edison Manufacturing Company (D-96-12) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Edison Manufacturing Co. Included are letters pertaining to the termination of the agreement between Edison and Felix Lalande giving the company the right to sell Lalande’s batteiy in the United States. All the documents have been filmed. Related material can be found in the various "Motion Pictures" folders. [TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] i S$u& c/e /k oJtvn/ciyne Q$>» -^enevieve ■ iX*+. 3 0 J- ju. 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J~ t~ y/sC^l 'T1 i.-?/t ^ l ^ , :' ■- \v~ f .:. 4, [TRANSLATION] 1 • . /is&tfeZi e ip/ <^> a ■nU~U.-n*-«~* - *6 /r/e* <7fiZ’ **>« Y’ea4a£' 4*«*-a*u**-', ao4',°4 4u>l4 *✓*- <** -«-£**y r • <^*1X: ***~***~t ■•=>■■. oUu^ H ■~*-'’3*r »f <*<***> y^ [ATTACHMENT] [TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] [TRANSLATION] v' ^ ' .Gem. ^ _ — / (UU&eC &O.A,, y'-m^ a*/ y,r.Y - ovy^tC^ . /€-, ZZrp, ■^O-cC ■'ff'Z £j{ A> 4t_^> /Y& tV-l/fti my &t-y(U-)/t yn^^n^Y~T <\aecri4)C^ty 'A ^tHiA. _ _ Y ^Yccc-i/ tin.* £ee^<_ ,£cjfc&^£- Y o*fiy“'jY Z4 ^ /3^V". .Y y.vyt^.. £y miy 4yyci^-/- gg #r /ffr ^uAXy V6 , «*»+*». y c^jy — ' / -rc™r - > *4, ' rc -- , '° ^GSOUscju P/^of-psa^c, / V >. / / smaller plants are of great importance in the large installations. The cost of a large distributing system in the streets, if promptly and throughly repaired at all points where weakness de- ve lopes, is no small item. The taxation of corporations -in Pennsylvania is very onerous, which is trus in many other state*. The clerical force required by a corporation for the proper transaction of its business arri. for the measurement' of current and the writing of bills for same is large and costly. The legal expenses and the losses of money from bills unpaid by unfortunate or dishonest consumers, mount up rapidly. Advert isingi rents and soliciting agents all add to what may be called the contingent expenses, which cannot be predetermined. Finally, after a Station has been in operation for about three years, the constant renewals and repairs to steam machinery and electrical apparatus form a considerable item of cost, which can¬ not be avoided, since the machinery must always be ready for im¬ mediate and perfect operation. It is only by oonstant and thorough renewal of every part of the machinery showing weakness that a Station can deliver an un¬ failing and regular li/dvt, without which dissatisfaction arises and failure is certain to follow. •* Taking the case of this Station from July 1st, 189%-, to July 1st, 1895, The average number of lamps connected is, 89359 * < The total number of 16 c.p. lamp hours sold is 62, 702,714-. Gross Income from Light & Power, one year, $411,315'. 30 Income per lamp attached, • $4.60 . . Income pay lamp hour (447/1000 Amp. hour) sold, 656/1000 et . The expenses of producing light may be divided approximately, at least, into two classes. 1st, Fixed charges, amounting to an annual charge on each lamp. 2nd-, Proportional charges, varying with the amount of current produced. Neither one of these olasses can be accurately separated from the other. THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. OF PHILADELPHIA. PA. 909 Walnut Street. Jelaplpoije, flo. 820. P‘ , Philadelphia, Subject: 2* It may, however, be assumed that when a Station has about 100,000 lights attached, that up to ISO, 000 lights, the following accounts will not be much increased, if at all:- Salaries, Rent, Insurance, Taxes & Royalty, Interest, Discount & Exchange, Office Expenses, Workshop Supplies & Expenses, General Expenses, Dynamo Room Pay Roll & Repairs, Engine Room Pay Roll & Repairs, House Wiring Inspection, Meter Expenses, Repairs to Electrical Apparatus, and Street Repairs & Maintenance, The following expenses inorease with the current sold by the Station, Oil, Waste & Packing-, Lamp Renewals & Coal. (In COAL is included all its labor, handling and firing it and repairs to boilers, as well as to removal of ashea. ) The aggregate of the Fixed Charges -is, $132,677,99 An average cost per lamp attached of, $1.46 per year. The aggregate of the proportional charge is, $88,132.78 An average cost per lamp hour sold, 1405/10000 ct.< Average burning of lamp per year, 701,7 hours. Average cost of lamp per year, proportional charge, 98,6 cents. Thus on one year's business, Income from each lanp per yQar, $4,60 Fixed charge on each lamp per year, $1,48 Proportional charge on each lamp per- year, ,99 _ 2,47 _ Profit on each lamp per year, $2.13 Or reducing to Lamp Hour standard. Income from each lanp per hour. Fixed charge on each lamp per hour, -.21 dt. Proportional charge on each lamp per hour, , 14 Profit on each lamp per hour. -.350 - .306 ot. This analysis of the actual expenses of one year’s run with 89359 lamps enables us to look -into the proper method of increas¬ ing the profits of . this Station. If we increase the number of lamps attached without increasing the number of lamp hours averaged by each lamp the profit arises from a diminution of the fixed charges per lamp. Thus assuming 120,000 lamps attached, the result is as follows:- Yearly income from each lamp, Fixed charge each lamp, . ■ Proportional charge each lamp, Profit, $1.11 ,99 $4.60 a, io $2. 50 " $3000,000.00 Total profit, 120,000 lamps. This is the limit of prbfit of Stat ion. Machinery- and Con¬ ductors, as at presant installed, provided the average hours of burning are not increased. We have, however, room for machinery for. 150,000 lights attached. - Estimated value of Machinery for 30,000 lights, $125,000.00 Additional Street Conductors, 125,000,00 $250,000.00 THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. 909 Walnut Street. Jeleptjor)e, |'/o. 820. Subject : p. O. Box 818. Philadelphia, 3. The average hours of burning per day of lamps, from which we have deduced the cost per lamp hour, is nearly two per day. An investigation of the possible profit arising from increased hours of burning will show the advantage to be reached by long hour? For 180,000 lamps attached. Hours use. Income per year. Cost per year Profit pe: lamp per r - Total annual yr. Profit, pr. day, 2 Pr. Yr. • 730 $4,79 $2'. 16 §2.63 §315600-. 00 4 1460 O'. 58 3.16 6.42 770400.00 6 2190 14.37 4.18 10.19 1222800.00 8 3920 19.15 5,21 13.94 1672800.00 10 3050 23.94 6.23 17.71 2125200.00 12 4380 28-. 72 7; 26 21-, 46 2575200.00 24 8760 57.46 13.41 44.05 5286000,00 The large results from long hours of us elt point to great Concessions which can be made for long hours of motive power work. The present investment of §2,000,000.00 should net, for obvious reasons to all business men, declare a dividend greater than 10/, or earn a profit" greater than 15/. This makes, with §2,000,000.00 investment and 120,000 lights attached, $300,000,00 per annum. Our present minimum rate yields per year, §3,13 Cost per year, _ 2.10 _ Profit^ §1,03 A yearly profit of, §123,600.00 Long hours of use of current point to large concessions in the way of discounts, which will enable the cheaper use of power and light. Por 120,000 lamps attached, $300,000.00 annual profit. Hours us e. Annual profi-t at present rate. Discount to reduce profit to $300,000.00 2 §315600.00 None. 4 770400.00 60/ 6 1222800-, 00 75/ 8 1672800.00 8?/ 10 2125200.00 85/ 12 25 75 200.00 88/ 24 5286000.00 94 / As.' the machinery of this Station is estinated to carry one half the lanps attached 24 houra, with 120,000 lights ifc is in/ possible. Likewise an average of 4 hours for the whole number of lights practically means 8 hours for l/2 that number, and therefore the discounts should be 1/2 that shown in above tabulation. „ THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. OF PHILADELPHIA. 909 Walnut Street. Telephone, ftlo. 820. — p. 0. Box 81B. Subject : Philadelphia, 4. Therefore-, in making contracts for long hours of use of motive power or light, the discounts should be as follows:- r° • iJ18COUnt8-. Per lamp Per H.P. Per day per day. Net Per Lamp hour. Prices. Per H.P. hour. Minimum oliarge, 1 ob. 10 cts. 3/Axjsfc. XxS/axstes-. 2 hours. nine. For 2H. P, & over, none 3/4 ct. 7-1/2 cts. 4 hours, to -.525 ct. 5*- 1/4 cts. 6 hours, 37-1/?/ 37-3/2/ -.469 ct. 4.69 cts.- 8 hours, 43/ 43/ ,443 of. 4,425 cts. > The foregoing has been upon the assumption of a 50 Watt, 16 c.p, lamp, and points out, very clearly the existing costs, their nature, and under what conditions is* it is possible to reduce the &ost per lanp hour by suitable discounts, without loss to the Station or Company. . , Taking up your suggestion of 00 lamps to the H.P., equiva¬ lent to 37-1/2 Watts per lamp; this Station, which can carry " 150,000 lamps of the present economy of 50 Watts,- should be able to carry 200,000 lamps of 37-1/2 Watts and 16 c.p. The. aggregate- of the fixed charges for one year on this Station is $132677,99, which would give an annual oharge on each lamp of 66 cts . The average cost of the proportional charge.-, due to coal-. Oil, Waste and lamp Renewals, should be 3/4 of .1405 ct. or .1053 of a cent per lamp hour sold. Thus on one year’s business the fixed charge on one lamp would be 66 cents; and assuming that each lamp burnt 701.7 hours, the total proportional charge is .1053 X 701.7 or 74 cents, which added to 66 cents, already charged, would rake $1.40 cost per annum, without any increase of the investment beyond $2,250,000, shown above. Assuming the profit required on $2,250,000 to be 15/, wo would lave as the profit required of the Station, $337o5-00. The cost of running 200,000 lamps would be $1.40 X 200,000 or $280,000. Adding this to the profit required, we have $617,500 as what should be produced as a Gross Income from 200,000 lanps, or requiring $3.08 Gross Income from each lamp. - Assuming that these lamps bum (as learned from experience) 701,7 -hours each year, the charge per lamp hour would have to about .43 of a bent!,, equivalent to a gaa charge of 86 cents per thousand cubic feet. This, I believe, answers the -questions which you have ask^/, assuming that lamps at 20 to the H.P. are burned the average numb er of hours found as an average at this Station. The matter of disc ounts from long hours of burning will re¬ quire^ imilar treatment to the case I have stated for Ihis^etation. Very respectfully and truly yours PRESIDENT. . / lf6> / - Qlvmuj.,* *j '?&J- REPORT OX? THE A. I . E. E. COHHJTTEE. T*. HoEarlsn Hoorn, Pour r»ir:- On Ho dues day ovcning, :.«ay 20, in company with Prof. E. T.. JTicliols, and Hr. Kelson W. Perry, I made a $ost of the j)ov.'cr absorbed by the vacuum tube light in your e;:hibit at tin Electrical Exposition, with results as given below. A Heston Arne tor was .-luccd la the circuit loading to the notor used for driving ■•he gone rato r which furnished the current fov‘ the vacuum tubes, and. a Heston voltmeter was placed across the motor terminals. Those instruments voire road at frequent interval.^ v/hile one of us in the booth below noted the time of turnin'; on aid o£f the light. Comparing notes wo found that when the tubes wore all off, the motor consumed 12.5 and 15 amperes at llo volts as a constant load. • V.'hon the tubes v/cro all on, the motor consumed 22 amperes at IOC. 5 volts. The motor theroforo consumed v/hon tubes were not. running 1402 watts, when the tubos wore all .running 2307 " due to tubes 005 n There were in operation 14 tubes, 7 l/z ft. long, 1 3/4 inches diameter, one tube somewhat short or, but 2 1/2 inches in diameter, and a few small tubes of special do sign. V/osostimated that the whole was an equivalent of 1C of the 1 3/4 inch tubo3. This gives 61. G v/atta per tubo apx>lied to ”t0r '”ral“a'- «* ~ «irei.M t,o J*.-.*** bJi onoh mo • : , . , . . , • r «.«** „„ u w to «* ln«,inro, °“““4- t**™-*. w ** «*&** w-, “* ‘"“aC1” " •■r r‘«S>«Wy*br!l«t t*<, uisht tt “’»» “*■ *m booth « to, toKtrtti™, “WWM-tW* 'u*m W-toi-to. to-rt W. ' . . ** fr'totilttW «,«.ur»o»tc »»„ rao wo _ Mo ln “"“"s ** * »“-“«■« ~ u «„ «. tfi- &•• Anthony, Chairman. 1896. Electric Light - Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York (D-96-14) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. Included are monthly financial reports, showing comparative earnings, expenses, and other statistics for the years 1895-1896; monthly construction accounts; and a report by Richard R. Bowker, first vice president, discussing company operations. All the documents have been filmed. CONSTRUCTION A C C 0 U H T. Balance State Trust Co. $ 70.507.65 LIABILITIES. Bills in hand 1 , 686 . Goods ordered not billod 77,502.14 Bills in dispute 13,520.12 92,607.26 Mortgage 12th St, Property 9.000, $101,607.26 GENERAL & OPERATING ACCOUNT. Bank Balances Shoo & Leather 18,541.79 American Exchange 3 124,192.91 142,734.70 Ctf . of Peposit State Trust Co. (Call sX) 225,000. Accrued Interest on Bonds 11,936. Customers' Accounts & u/R 152.362.50 $532,533.20 LIABILITIES. Bills in hand 6,835.44 - • •; Goods ordered not billed 15,000. Bills in dispute 3,728.87 25,564.31 Accrued Interest on Bonds to March 1 125.450. $151,014.31 E. & 0. E. Feb'y 19, 1896. Treai surer. € &e ■ M . The Edison Electric Illuminatino; Co. of New York. General Offices , 53, 33, 57 Duane St, nmnmn, ferkuaky, laac;* (Inclusive of High-Tension flyntswa.) 1395 Cross. Homings f 195,221.83 Operating & Conors! Ex¬ panses, including Taxes 91,786*80 i'f«t Burningo 103,434.37 176,710,44* 94,066,81* 83,680.18* 18,506,79 8,248.45 Dec. 20,754,84 Accrued Interest on Bonds 27,076.00** 30,076,34 8,998.86 capital .stock 7, 938,000. on 7, 988, 000, 00 **•**««!* Bond's 6,494,000,00** 4,804,000,00 1,690,000,00 * The figures of Pflbruury , *96, include for purposes of comp or- ' Ison, the gr ok is ($10,673.01) expenses (§9,008.98) ond not (*'1,010.03) <,f the Madison Square system, not then under control of thin Company, us. those figures wore reported by the Koeoiyer, ** Including §64,000. outstanding H. & !(. Bonos, not in pos¬ session of this company. Cross Homines Expenses Xet Burnings Edison Co. §161,872.12 07,537.03 94,335.09 M.& il.Cos. $28,923.71 15,188.88 7,733.83 Mad. Be. Co, $10,420.40 9.000.95 1,305.46 Total §196,831*23 91,786.80 103,434.37 Incan. Lamps, lo c.p. equiv, and of month Arc Lamps, number Mo tore H.P. , number 377,273 28,200 3,434 1,280 13,542 4,899 304,378 664 5,385 GO 13,602 -'--ffi *.. installation figures exclude supplementary service to isolated plant lamps and motors partially included the previous Gross Earnings Ket Burnings Interest on Bonds HKTUftKS FOK 2 MOBTHS. 1896 §413,402.77 220,289.67 54,150.00 1895 $383,357.97 180,998,52 40,162.68 Incroano $31,044.80 33,291.05 13,997.32 L _ i T* £ M • A* The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. General Offices , jj, j-j, 57 Duane St. ZZ™, COMBINED EARNINGS, MARCH, 1896. ( Inclusive of High- Tension Systems) Cross Warnings § Operating & General Ex¬ penses, including Taxes Hot Earnings Accrued Interest on Bonds Capital Stock Mortgage Bonds 1096 ; 104,156.64 95,661.83 88,494.81 27,075.34 7,938,000.00 6,494,000.005 1895 § 166,683.57 88,785.59 77,897.98 20,075.34 7,938,000.00 4,804,000.00 Increase $ 17,473.07 6,876.24 10,596.83 7,000.00 1*690,000.00 'flic figures of 1895, include for purposes of comparison thoso of the Madison Square system, not previously includod. 5 Including §64,000. outstanding M. & H. BOnds, not in posses¬ sion of this Company. Gross Earnings Expenses ’Jet Earnings •Edison Co. M. & H.Coa. §149,715.81 $23,607.31 70,719.13 15, 470 i 14 78,996.68 8,137.17 Mad. 8 ii. §10,833.52 9,472.56 1,360.96 §184,156.64’ 95,661.83 : 88, 494. 81 RETURNS FOR 3 MONTHS. 1896 1895 Increase Gross Earnings Hot Earnings Interest on Bonds §597,559.41 '308V784.'38 01,225.34 §549,041.54 204,896.50 60,228.00 § 40,517.8? 43,887.88 20,997.34 Edison Co. M.& H.Coa. Mad.3q.Co. Incan. Lamps, 16 c.p. Oqu.iv.end of month 239,277 21,670 Arc Lamps, number- 3,012 1,331 Motors H.P. .number 13,227 265 ,884 4,970 13,207 HOTS: Tho installation figur/s oxolude supplementary sorvioo to isolated plant lamps and motors partially included the previous year.. COHSIHOOIIQS A C 0 0 U N T. Balance State Trust Oo. #91.471.34 LIABILITIES. Bills in hand floods ordered not billed Bills in dispute Mortgage l.?th St. Property Bal. due n/o 12th St. Purchase Advances from Operatin'? A/c 15,667.02 54,700.42 12,951.76 03,319.20 9,000. (ie H to remain on Htge) 20,000. 105.398.01 $222,717.81 GKfKKAb & OPKRATlM'i AOOOUliT. Bani; Balances Shoe ft toother 'it’., 493. 84 American Exohango 47,239.04 95,733.48 Otf. of nopooit State Trust Co. {Cull 3$) 275,000, Accrued Interest on Bonds 17 obo. Thorp Mortgage 10,000. Customers' A/c a and S/P 139,239.28 Advances to Construction a/c 105.390.61 #6 42 I 40 1.3 7 LIABILITIES, Bills in hand Goods ordered not billed Bills in dispute Aceiuod Interest on Bonds Dividend due May 1 K. & 0. E. 42,388.76 •37,500. 6,784.58 86,073.36 71,230. 119.055, _ ^276,958.36 Treasurer. 'April 15, 1896 THE EDISON ELECTRIC ILLUMIMATING * CO. 53, 65 & 57 DUANE STREET. A meeting of the Directors of this Company will be held at . . NO 27 PINE STREET . THURSDAY -APRIL . -16 ,-1896 _ Y”,w* Secretary. The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. General Offices, JJ, 55, 57 Duane St. COMBINED EARNINGS, APRIL, 1896. (Inclusive of High-Tension Systems.) 1896 1895 Increase Gross Earnings 5 Operating & General Ex¬ penses, including Taxes Net Earnings Allowance for Doprec'n Accrued Interest on Bonds 180,110.64 89,586.34 90,504.30 10,000.00 87,075.34 ■* 163,410.74 $ 35,784.99 77,685.75 8,333,33 80,075.34 10,699,90 3,301,35 18,898,65 1,666.07 7,000.00 Capital Stock 7,938,000.00 7,938,000.00 Mortgage Bonds o,494,,P00.00* 4,804,000.00 1,690,000.00 ' The figures of 1895, include for purposes of comparison those of the Madison Square system, not previously included. * Including $64,000. outstanding M. & H. Bonds, not in posses¬ sion of this Company. Gross Earnings Expenses Net Earnings Edison Co. M. & H. Cos. Mad.Sq.Co. Total $ 146,838,46$ 83,351.17 $ 10,581.01 $ 180,110.64 65,143.34 15,014.94 9,368.06 89,586.34 81,095.18 8,336.83 1,153.95 90,584.30 RETURNS FOR 4 MONTHS. 1896 1895 Increase Gross Earnings $ Net Earnings Interest on Bonds Allowmoe for Deproc'n 777,670.05 399.368.68 108.300.68 40,000.00 $ 713,452.88 342,582.25 80,303.34 33,333.33 » 65,217,77 56,786,43 27,997.34 5,666.67 Incan. Lamps, 16 c.p. equiv. end of month Arc Lamps, number Motors H. P., number Edison Co. 241,358 3,058 13,949 M.& H.Cos . Mad.Sq.Co. 81,654 5,519 1,406 695 60 Total 268,531 5,159 14,009 ^OTE : The installation figures exclude supplementary service to isplated- plant lamps and motors partially included the previous year-. 1 ofu-^ed. . . . . . . . The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. General Offices , 33, 33, 57 Duane St. New Yoric, June 16, 1896. Thos. A. Edison, Esq., orange, N. J. Dear Sir:- In accordance with the request of the Staff Council, I beg you to find herewith a copy of the minute adopted at a meeting held this day in memoriam of Mr. Smith, for a number of years the General Operating Superintendent of this Company. A copy of this minute for presentation to Mrs. Smith will be engrossed and signed by each member of the Staff as an individ¬ ual attestation of the esteem and respect in which he was held by his immediate business associates. Very truly Enclosure. EE/Y kiQ> - rfy ' The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York, General Offices, jj, 55, 57 Dtiane St. Z'Z'l£' COMBINED EARNINGS, JUHB 1896, (Inclusive of High-Tension Systems.) .1896 . 1895 Increase Gross Earnings $ Operating & General Ex¬ penses, including Taxes Net Earnings 159,068.02 $ 91,655,63 67,418.39 147,637.40 $ 74,363.68 73,273.78 11,430,62 17,291,95 5,801, 33 n» Allowance for Deprec’n 10,000,00 8,333,33 s 1,666,07 Accrued Interest on Bonds 27,075,34 20,075,34 7,000,00 Capital Stock 7,938,000.00 7,938,000,00 Mortgage Bonds 6,494,000,00* 4,804,000,00 1,690,000,00 The figures of 1895, include for purposes of comparison those of the Madison Square system, not previously included. * Including $J2,000 outstanding M. & H. Bonds, not in posses¬ sion of this Company. Gross Earnings Expenses Net Earnings Edison Co. M.& H.Cos. Mad. Sq.Co. Total « 123,567.71 * 24,510.06,10,989.45 ,109,068.02 66,037.29 16,119.30 9,499.04 91,655.63 57,530.42 8,391.56 1,490.41 67,412,39 RETURNS FOR 6 MONTHS. Gross Earnings Net Earnings Interes.t . on Bonds . Allowance for Deprec’n 1896 1895 Increase , 1,100,904.04 * 544,032.99 162,450.00 GO, 000. .00 , 1,010, 9-18. 19 ,89,956.45 491,002.32 * 53,030. 67 120.450.00 42,000.00 50,000.00 10,000.00 Edison Co. M.fc H.Cos. Incan. Lamps, 16 c. p. equiv. end of month Arc Lamps , number Motors H. P. , number 213,529 19,646 2,947 1,515 14,012 Mad. Sq.Co. Total 0,777 238,952 706 5,168 60 14,872 NOTE: The installation figures exclude supplementary service to iso^te^^n^ Igjngp lations. Mem, to Dircotora. July' 1ft.' *90. In vi.uK of the increased operating expenses mid lowered not of June, 1800, compared v/itli June, 1805, the folio wine Edison data are presented to Directors: Tiio output fit current in June '90 ivr.o more than in *05: wie returns from current increased from $112, 416 to §128, 811, i’o. , $9795, or 0/i. Of this .increase, $2701 only me for lighting (inn candescent and arc), the returns from inoendeacont lighting" in the second District having fallen off from $59,287 to §38,570, while the increase from power was $7035. This shows that the increased busii- nous of Juno has been chiefly from the lower scale of motor reve¬ nues. The lowered incandescent revenue uptown io attributable to tho unusually early and large season disconnections, «n«ninting up to July 1st to 33,435 lamps us against .23,914 in *95 — the early si'dl of hot weather having caused early closing of theatres and residences}; and probably to economies in lighting in the stores' because of dull times. The Alison operating expenses are 90(5,037 in June '96 as against $01,534 in June '90. whan they were abnormally low— an in¬ crease of §14,503. The items in which there have boon considerable inorotuioa are as follows, tho other items showing in the aggregate a alight decrease: Item. — JJWtPij 1896. Increase. no v;ul, 9 79.45 $1,103.09 $1,083.64 902.78 2,957.87 1,974, 7p 1,500.00 3,125:.00 1,025.00 tlO 8; 503'. 00 469.48 879.29 1 $ » *>*j 561 , 84 828. 67 687.14 488,47 1,942.18 2,406.51 544 j 33 0,060.50 11,245.58 8,385.08 354. 48 1,563.48 1,811.94 307.04 1,188,84 . ;.YVX*S6 1,451.51 2,018 .'46 5>>6< 95 1,120.06 3 , 867 .14 8,139.08 4,151.03 5,794.39 §15,374.47 I. Advertising' ami. canvassing 8. legal, modi cal' « damages, 3. Taxes, 4. hot or 3opn rtmont, 8. Engineering /•. laboratory, <»• station sundries, 7. Boiler labor, 3. Fuel, • 9. Engine repairs, 10. station structure repairs, II. Distribution labor, 18. Incandescent lamps- re 13. Street conductor repairs uwi subway' charges, (1) Advertising includes 3171 for advertising dividends ‘and inter¬ est payments not in .Tunc lust y ear,- and pro-ratod charges of 396.71 j>cr month for the "Electrical- Engineer1 2 3 4 5' pamphlet on the Company, nnuow nhamoo mo.la to nn.woUnw «hi ,Vi . thftlllfl h»V« boon to - 2 - construction, anti in I'liio they included a special Atom of $133 for the valuable data of the 3t«nm Users' A iioociation. (6) Station mmdirus were abnormally low in 1896; in 1096, they in elude pro-retod amount of 3136,34 for cost of removal of Produco iixohnngo equipment, and other awnll items not. occurring last year, (7) Bailor labor, which includes handling of coal, has increased with the increase of coni handled, and also because of charges for coal teste, cleaning boilers unit coal bunkers, etc. , which did not come into Juno of last your, (3) 1'uol in or eased 37/,' as against 32$ increase in output of cur¬ rent . (9) Kngino repairs are abnormally high in the uptown district, and tills subject ia receiving special investigation at tho hands of the General Manager and District Superintendent. (10) Station structure repairs include unusual expanses in con¬ nection with the roof of the Sard street station, the anh reservoir at 39th street station and changes in the smoke flue system at 26th street station. (11} Distribution labor (opening junction boxes, caring for aorvi co-ends and general oversight of the street system) shows excoasive increase, and is also having special investigation. (12) Inenhds scant lamp renewals have hitherto been abnormally low in tho summer- raonUis, bo cause the Company left it to customers. to send in their lamps for changing. Under tho present system, leap wagons hre sent to customers* houses with lamps for exchange, and one of the first effect 6 of the change is to increase very largely tho - renew 3 a t, uing the summer. Shis should be partly offset by lessened renewals in’ the oarly fall. (13) She subway charges ns pro-rntod are increased $260 and street conductor repairs have boon unusually, heavy. It should be noted that tho total returns for the first half year, combined earnings, show not for nil companies of close upon 60$ ’ arid more than justify the estimate of $2, 000,000 gross business and $1,060,000 not for the year. R. R. B. The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. General Offices , jj, 55, 57 Duane St. COMBINED EARNINGS , JULY, 1896 . (Inclusive of High-Tension Systems.) 1896 1895 Increase Gross Earnings $ 156,691.32 $ 156,693.59 $ 21,197,73 Operating & General Ex¬ penses. including Taxes 69,620.76 77,160.00 12,460,76 Net Earnings 67,270.56 58,633.59 8,736.07 Allowance for Deprec’n 10,000.00 8,333.33 1,666.67 Accrued Interest on Bonds 27,076.34 20,075.34 7,000.00 Capital Stock 7,938,000.00 7,938,000.00 Mortgage Bonds 6,494,000.00*= 4,004,000.00 1,690,000.00 The figures of 1895, include for purposes of comparison those of the Madison Square system, not previously included. * Including $52,000, outstanding M. & H. Bonds, not in posses¬ sion of this Company. Edison Co. M.& H.Cos. Mad.Sq.Co. • Total Gross Earnings $180,248.04 $24,893.78 $ 11,749.60 $156,891.32 Expenses 63,335.00 17,101.37 9,164.39 89,620.76 Net Earnings 66,913.04 7,792,41 2,568,11 67,270.56 RETURNS FOR 7 MONTHS. | 1896 1895 Increase Gross Earnings $ 1,262,796.96 $ 1,161,041,78 ? 111,154.16 Net Earnings . 611,803,55 549,535.91 62,267.64 Interest on Bonds 189,525.00 140,525.00 49,000.00 Allowance for Deprec’n 70,000.00 58,333.53 11,666.67 Edison Co. M.& H.Cos Mad.Sq.Co. Total Incan. Lamps, 16 c. p. equiv. end of month 818,428 20,213 5,830 244,471 Arc Lamps , number 3,866 1,464 693 5,023 Motors H. P. , number 16,076 60 15,135 N07E: The installation figures exclude supplementary service to isolated plant lamp! 3 and motors partially included the previous | year. _ _ CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNT. Balance state Trust Co., S199.aao.sa LIABILITIES Bills in hand Goods ordered not billed Bills in dispute ortgages 13th St. Property Advances from Ope rating Account 3,000. 105,029.90 9,002.25 117, 012.15 27,000. 142.534.12 §287,146.27 GENERAL . ft OP EF.ATING ACCOUNT , Bank Balances Shoe ft Leather 16,384. 05 Amei‘1 cun' Skch tinge • 34.160.44 Otf. of Deposit State Ti-uot Co, (Call 2/) Customers A/co ft B/R Advances to Construction A/c 50,845.09 14a, 000. 47 142.534.12 $301 .379 . 03 LIABILITIES, Goods ordered not billed Bills in dispute Accrued Interest on Bonds 15,500. 3,895.67 19,395.67 125. 550. §144,945.67 a. ft o. e. Treasurer. August 19, 1096, The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. General Offices , 33, 33, 57 Duane St. COMBINED EARNINGS, AUGUST, 1896. (Inclusive of High-Tension Systems.) 1896 1895 Increase Gross Earnings $ Operating & General Ex¬ penses, including Taxes Net Earnings 150,016.91 $ 90,637.60 64,379.31 134, 274 ..05 $ 79,531.95 54,742.10 20,742.86'. 11,105.65 9,637.21 Allowance for Deprec’n 10,000.00 8,333.33 Accrued Interest on Bonds 27,075,34 27,075.34 1,666.67 Capital Stock 7,938,000.00 7,938,000.00 Mortgage Bonds 6,494,000.00’ 6,494,000.00 The figures of 1895, include for purposes of comparison those of the Madison Square system, not previously included. * Including $ 52, 000, outstanding M. & H. Bonds, not in posses¬ sion of this Company Gross Earnings Expenses Net Earnings Edison Co. M.& H.Cos. Mad. Sq.Co. Total $ 118,544.99 65,621.75 52,923.24 $ 24,780,67 15,708.67 9,072.00 $ 11,691.26 9,307.18 2,384.07 1156,016.91 90,637.60 64,379.31 RETURNS FOR 8 MONTHS. 1896 1895 Increase Gross Earnings Net Earnings Interest on Bonds Allowance for Deprec’n $1,417,612.87 $1,285,915.83 $131,987.04 676,182.86 604,276.01 71,904.85 216,600.00 167,600.00 49,000.00 80,000.00 66,666.66 13,333.34 Edison Co. Incan. Lamps, 16 c. p. 217,949 equiv. end of month Arc Lamps , number 2,926 Motors H. P., number 16,046 M.& H.Cos. 20,655 1,471 Mad.Sq. Co. Total 6,076 244,680 699 5,096 60 • 15,106 NOTE: The installation figures to isolated plant lamps and motors year. exclude supplementary service partially included the previous /«/y kt c* CONSTRUCTION A 0 C 0 U N T. Balance State Trust Go. §185.940. 65 LIABILITIES Bills in hand Goods ordered not billed Bills in dispute Mortgages 18th St. Property Advances from Operating Account _ $842,137.14 9,330.70 97,938.85 4,704.06 111,979.89 27,000. 103.157.85 RENKRAL & OPERATING ACCOUNT. Bank Balsnc03 Shoo & Loathor 40,108.32 American Exchange 26,285.44 Ctf. of Deposit State Trust Co. Customers A/cs & B/R Advances to Construction Account 66,393.70 25,000. 146,797.92 103.157.25 $341,348.93 LIABILITIES, Bills in hand 26,632.32 Goods ordered not billed 14,500. Bills in dispute 3,783,81 Accrued Interest on Bonds 44,916.13 32.450. $77,366.13 E. & 0. E. Treasurer. Sept. 14, 1896, /0-f U C 0 H S X R U 0 T 1 0 ii ACC Q U n T, Balance State Trust Oo. M/OJIUTIKS, Bills in hand hoods ordered not billed ">'ork authorized not completed Bills in Uispulo Mortuago- 12th St. Property Advances from Operating Account 5,610.90 56,827.60 9,000. 15,803.74 87,242.30 18,000, 144.646.30 ^249,808.68 OKMKRAh & OPKRA'.l'lii '• ACCOMT. Bank Balances Shoe & heather American Exchange Ctf. of Deposit State Trust Co. Customers' Accounts & b/H Advances to Construction Account 85,693.12 25,000. 201,193.73 144.646.38 $456 . 536 » 23 LIABILITIES. Bills in hand Ooods ordered not billed Bills in dispute Accrued Interest on Bonds E. & 0. E. Dec. 15, 1896. 46,433.29 15,000.00 16,547.71 99.250. $177,231.00 Treasurer. 1896. Electric Light - General Electric Company (D-96-15) This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of the General Electric Co. Most of the documents pertain to negotiations for a new laboratory contract between Edison and the company. There are also letters about the development of fluorescent lamps and items concerning the company’s efforts to locate the corporate records of the Edison Lamp Co. and the Edison Machine Works. Among the correspondents is Frederick P. Fish, an attorney and company official who negotiated the new contract. The six documents not filmed are nonsubstantive letters regarding requests for information, loans from Edison’s libraiy, the shipment of supplies, and other routine company business. Orange, N.J. My dear sir:- All your suggestions in the contract that amount to anything I shall substantially adopt, but there are two or three of the smaller ones that pou do not want to have me adopt. I shall be in New York Wednesday and should like very much to have you call on me on that day that we may bring this matter to a head at once. I should like to settle on the contract with you on Wednesday and to close the whole thing up as soon thereafter as the papers can be copied, which will certainly be by Thursday or Friday. Please let me know at my New York office at what hour on Wednesday I may expect you. Very truly yours. (ffl ^ ylP} FISH, RICHARDSON & STORROW, JAMES J. STORROW, J>. AOtTOH, charlesF'neI^e!CK’ a > COUNSELLORS AT LAW, GUY CUJJnInghaM^ ^ 40 WATER STREET, BOSTON. 80 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. (V>'V ^ NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 1896. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N. J. My dear Sir: — Have you the record books of the Edison Lamp Company and the Edison Machine Works? We have occasion once in a while to refer to those books, and it o ccdrs to me that if you have them, you have absolutely no use for them, and would be perfectly willing that they should be at Schenectady, v/here you can get them at any time. If you have them, and agree that they should be in the custody of the General Company, will you kindly have them shipped to M. F. Westover, secretary, General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York? Very truly yours, fjryp,(F~^ \ U-4 l>crcr{<_ My partner, Mr. Charles Neave, is bringing to you (a) Three copies of the new contract as we agreed upon it yesterday, one for you, one for the Edison General Electric Com¬ pany, and one for the General Eleotfic Company; (b) The original copy which you went over with me yesterday; (c) A check for §42,000 to your order; (d) Receipt for the §6,800 which you have received atjthe rate of §400 a wefck since the first of October, and which is on account of the §15,000 retainer for the current year. Will you please sign the three copies of the main con¬ tract, and return them to me by Mr. Neave, that I may have them executed by the General Company and the Edison General Company, whereupon one fully executed copy will be sent to you. Also, please sign the receipt for the §6,800, if that is the right amount , as I have no doubt it is . Mr. Neave will bring back with him the original copy from which we worked in making the new copy of the contract, as X de¬ sire to keep that on my files, and also your receipt for the §6,800. The check he will deliver to you. This will, of course, complete the whole transaction, for you may trust me to see that you get back a properly executed copy of the main contract, and also of the mutual releases which you 2. FISH, RICHARDSON & STORROW. signed yesterday. Congratulating you and ourselves on the satisfactory result of our long negotiations, FISH, RICHARDSON & STORROW, COUNSELLORS AT LAW, WATER STREET, BOSTON. 80 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. NEW YORK, January 31, 1896. Orange , New Jersey . My dear Sir: — I send you the release executed as far as we can get it executed; that is to say, by the General Company, the Edison General Company and the Edison Light Company. I have no doubt that you will be entirely satisfied with the signatures of these com¬ panies; but if you are not, Just go ahead and sign up the rest yourself. It appears that the president of the: Edison Lamp Com¬ pany is Mr. Thomas A. Edison; the president of the Edison Machine Works is Mr. Thomas A. Edison. We cannot .find the record books of Bergmann & Company, but the last stock certificates that were signed, were signed by Mr. Thomas A. Edison as president. Under these circumstances, I think that you have got just as good a release as you. can desire. Very truly yours, (tf 7~ py (h ) EATON, LEWIS & HODGKINS S.B. EATON EUGENE H. LEWIS ARTHUR P. HODGKINS Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, New Jersey. (A^ Dear Sir: We understand that Mr. Pish reoently made some new con¬ tract arrangement with you for the General Electric Company, and that by the terms thereof all unsettled matters were cleared up, not only as regards the General Electric Company but also as regards the Edison General Electric Company. In accordance with our understanding in the matter we believe that the inventions which were made by you during the period between the expiration of the light Company's contract with you and the laboratory Agree¬ ment of October 1, 1890, are to be assigned by you to the Edison General Electric Company, In view of the above, and as we are still engaged in straightening title of various patents belonging to the Edison Electric light Company and its successors, we have prepared an assignment of patents now standing in your name, for inventions made during the above named open period, This document is en¬ closed herewith, and we shall be glad to receive it from you when executed and witnessed. Yours very truly, ~A(A> ad-a -(LCvtjdj a GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Mr, Thos. A. Edison, Orange, N.J. DearSir Will you kindly execute the enclosed release and send to ns aid oblige? This i s to enable us to cancel bond given by the Americai Surety Company in 1892 in connection with replevin suit brought against the Edison Electric IgLght & Power Company, South Amboy, and is required by the insurance authorities before they will allow the Surety Company to cancel the liability. C th/go 'Manager C€ July, 1896. 1 have also asked that the necessary credits be made you on account oi’ bills for material furnished since the termination of your previous contract, which credit 1 understand will be in lieu of the payment of $100 per week for material and other expenses incurred in connection with the fluorescent lamp experiments and such other experiments as are not covered by the existing contract. I believe, technically, I should request you to continue the fluorescent lamp experiments. Will you kindly consider this letter a compliance with such formality? Very truly yours. I send you herewith check for $200, in accordance with request of Mr. Coffin. Please also find herewith bill for $656.73, most of the items being in connection with materials furnished from the Harrison factory, add a further bill, from the general office, for $665.13. It is my understanding, from Mr. Coffin, which I will be glad to have you confirm, that we shall credit to you such items of these bills as were incurred in connection with fluorescent lamps, and I would esteem it a favor if you would return the same to me after you have specified what items should be credited to you. On request of Mr . Coffin, a check will be sent you the first of every week, commencing as of the first of July, for $100, the check herewith being for two weeks' payment, which 1 understand is to cover all the costs and expenses of experiments with fluores¬ cent lamps, not covered by the existing contract with reference to lamp filaments. In case you should prefer us for any reason to supply material and deduct the amount thereof from the cash pay¬ ment , we will be pleased to do so . - HP/CHS Schenectady, N. Y. , November 7, 1896, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N. J. Dear Sir:- I enclose you herewith our check for $1250. I believe the contract between yourself, the General Electric Company, et al, dated October 1st, 1895, was to last for a period of one year with the right of the General Company to renew the same. No decision has been reached as yet as to the renewal of the contract but I ’ presume will be in the near future and that the officers of the Company will take up with you the details of the contract at an early date. Pending this decision, however, I forward you the check en¬ closed with the understanding that as long as the monthly payments are made you will favor the General Company with additional ' time in which to decide upon the renewal of the contract. Very truly yours, 2nd Vice-President. I have pleasure in handing you herewith check for $1250, this check being on account and being sent you in accordance with request of Mr. F. P. Fish. It is my understand¬ ing, in sending this check, that it will be subject to adjustment between Mr. Fish and yourself when Mr. Fish meets you. Kindly acknowledge receipt and oblige, Very respectfully yours. 1896. Mining (D-96-16) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to mining and ore milling. Included are items pertaining to the purchase of ore milling machineiy and the operation of the plant at Edison, N.J. There is also a letter about a new steel-making process. Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine inquiries relating to mines and to ore samples sent to Edison for testing; routine correspondence regarding supplies and company meetings. ♦ Q&r yo&fcpi ^ cwt- >u. /jj-^LLj v*^w/'-Xt\ C~~ *^rr-^‘* -*W *4sf;-#r««_ ^ ^sj . C^dr . . [ENCLOSURE] K-Vt +vu£^ „~kc - ; £*o^l««r~ 3o <2tf*dr ~v/$N jis \' ; v “■ . _ ;r:;| ^£txir A*+i**. — ... v,'j'._i':lj _..i„.._.,.._ i ««< . 6v<4c«« pci^tT . K#« f» .Uont*y_ ... *•“ . -^cf" |>A.“'«•■« i*‘ferr “V^ . rr-i _ i SMC*-*#*, — lv«c| /yi. .. L. 6i <4<.|Limw | LBs.'ta. . A^ijfct|. ,<^r:C/<«_... . : Uc^jfer. A.«^ . _ ;!_ _ j (^n+’Cu . ..c«.rtr. _ _....__. . (/CTi. _ $<•* JUif ... +->v.->4m-i^, 4L* iyfui' cS/-2 Zg<4£A* C*S^7 0-£ f'h^y, y4*0-„ *S . \ . sC. . yla. ^4*^L *y~2l* Jfa. VTT-zC O^0-Zusi^-j ^4L* is> j£^c&c*J-to, <>SZZZZr4rt&u 6 ^ iStZr <^f6*M*^c^aJZO J-3*l*y^ £*tPOst*1*C- &-&L0 a^is^y Ze^i? 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Al, caACAoas > - - //.rfstyy A &C fU^-rydyl ,isA4fa *A- {Usiy^ '’ufi4 Clssy^C Attsfyus'A.Ayy ^Usr-yy jAr~U •y^iS-yisT' /Cyyy. Ay^xyyA A* 0*^ -, . ^ ■ V-^ CZyyy, •; • ■■• Afeyy AAAiAc Ap^ly},. ^ .... AAo-j-L. ,-hrj^U^ AA. \ U^SyAAiAs /¥\ /Ci-cA^ZyLtA? AAZAAAriZ ~fz^_ ^ AJt,(Ac/~-\£y£\A ( - ^ fctyA)-/n-\_. >v ^ y^^yAZZLsZy y *''*•"' 'd^y^.csi^ yUyt^.sre.^_ /££ g.^ / , /At'Z^L-. 'y-Ayyy~£^ Atyytr ^ &*‘isJZztlL y}y JZOyy AAtc, KrA,' #Cyi tsyi^t-c— ^ohLi^, CAa~ 1896. Motion Pictures - Kinetoscope Exhibiting Company (D-96-17) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co. Included are documents regarding the transfer of the company’s interests to the personal control of its president, Samuel J. Tilden. There are also letters about the sale of prize-fight films. Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been filmed. The documents not filmed concern Tilden’s default on, and the subsequent protest of, a $500 promissory note given to Enoch J. Rector, vice president of the company, and to the Edison Manufacturing Co. j&amuel J. HTit&ew, * !! M- W. E. Gilmore, Esq., Gen'l. Mgr., Edison Mfg. Co., Orange, H. J., My dear sir:- /-V-e-tuxAe February 1st, 1890. tO^CEI Vt'jj FEB - J.R98 . . . rf... Mr. Rector is here to-day and has informed me of your wish,, in regard to hilling all goods to me personally, in the future. In reply would say that this is perfectly satisfactory and under exist¬ ing circumstances, I would prefer that it should he done. Now in regard to the Kinetographs which are in your custody, I wish you would make out a hill to me for them as I have paid for them. Receipt the hill and send same to me. that I may put the matter straight on my hooks. Further, I wish you would write me a letter similar to the previous one regarding the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, substituting the name of Maher-Fitzsimmons. You will please insert in this letter to me, that the photographs will he copyrighted in my name,' as Mr. Rector has informed me this was arranged between you and him. Also he mentioned that there would he a reduction in the film, which you former, -ally stated would he 35 / per lineal ft. I trust you will make this price as low as possible because it will he a serious feature in rogard to sales, if films are too high. Trusting that you will forward this letter to me at once The Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co. NEW LEBANON, N. Y. . . Ae.CA.3L.4j. . 6. V/. E. Gilmore, Esq., Rupt., Orange, H. J Dear Sir I beg to advise you that the Kinetographs now in your possession, which were built for us, have been turned over to Samuel J. Tilden; that .we have no further interest in them. Also our right, title and interest in the Corbett-Kitzsiironons films, as wall ns the Leonard-Cushing. Respectfully, The Kinetoscope Exhibiting Oo . , ■ A Aw Treas. :'.tcEivEb : APR -plggs j 4# Ans. , J. nTit&ett, ^IeIr!:v.-'ish was father to the thought." Respectfully, The Kinetoscope Kxhibiting Co., Treas. Ittfu off fa (farC » o-jc | I J3nJj> fa ^'u^fu''(r/6 fftua *u&/i/£j0ct% if S. & W.E.'!ilmora,Esq. , l\\r\\tf'° Gen. Mgr . , Edison Mfg. Co., HI Orange, N.J. ' My dear Gilmore :- Your favor of the 14th enclosing copy of Australian Contract, approved by Mr .Edison, also letter received from Ms eesrs .Remnant & Saunders, also copy of letter written Lee Warner, received. Referring to the next to the last paragraph of your letter as to the form of communication to be sent Mr. Lee Warner by you, my idea would be, as the letters of cancellation have been recalled, and we have no record in this off 2 ce whatever of their existence, that this matter be ■> not referred to in your letter, unless all the facts are stated. If you' think it advisable to do so you might state that the cancellation sent had no reference to existing contracts, made in good faith by the Con¬ tinental Commerce Company, as was the case with the Lee Warner contract, and that the letter of cancellation has subsequently been recalled, and’ our contract with Mr. Edison in all points restored. Along these lines I •would suggest that you write Hr. Lee Warner a letter substantially as f0i_ lows : "Referring further to your letter of Dec. loth, and our reply thereto of Dec. 26th, 1D95, in order to avoind any misunderstanding on your part, I wish to say that the cancellation referred to in no wise affects con¬ tracts or sales of machines previously made by the Conti nantai Commerce Company, and therefore, in no wise affected your contract' with said Com¬ pany, and I would also state that the letter of cancellation referred to has been recalled and the relations between Mr. Edison and the C&ntinantal Commerce Company restored on the former basis as though said cancilla- tion had never been made. I would further state that the contract be¬ tween the Continarital Commerce Company and yourself has been approved by Mr. Edison. The letter sent to you was written before I wasTuliy in¬ formed of the situation and when a copy of the Australian Contract was not at hand, arid therefore, you may have gotten a wrong impression. I therefore, hasten to set you rlghton this matter and give you the situa¬ tion as it exists." I would suggest that you send this letter not only to ^ee Warner but also to his attorneys, Messrs. Remnant & Saunders. There is no reason why Mr. Edison should not have approved this contract as of the date of its making, any time he saw fit, and the effect of his approval id' th e same whether made no or .at the time. I do not think that there is any objection 'whatever to your stating the situation exactly as It is and lettetng them see that Mr. Edison intends to sustain us in this matter, and does not intend to assist Lae Warner in "holding us’ up". Yours very truly. " KURI LIAN" YORK. EDISON-LALANDE BATTERY. 5 salesrooms: 110 EAST 23rd ST., NEW YORK. Edison Manufacturing Company, — nOTOR OUTFITS,^#**- — EDISON • KINETOSCOPES • MEDICAL • APPARATUS, Dental and Surgical Motor Outfits. . »r-mihT . Joseph D, Bnuous, Treasurer, Continental Commerce Co., 4-i Pine street. Hot York, My Dear Baucus:- I have your letter of tlio 15th., referring further to the matter of tho Auotrallan Contract . I have today mitten to Hr. L. Leo- Warner ao per copy of letter attached. I wish you would refer to tho copy of tho letter which I sent you, writ ton to Honors, Remnant & Saundoro under date of tho 7th. I can¬ not soo that this lettor places you in any very serious position, and I do not ooo that an erplanation similar to that requirod in tho oaoe of Hr. Warner is neoesoary in thoir oaoe. If any further letter is re¬ quired for i.oDors. R. &.S., thon it will have to he different from tho oomnunioatlon written to Hr. Warner. if you think different, lot mo knov/; hut I fail to see any reason why I should mite a- similar to Ilosors. Remnant & Saunders to that written to Hr. Warner. Yours vory truly, W30/HSH. General Manager, [ENCLOSURE] O CABLE EDISON-LALANDE BATTERY. SALESROOMS: "KURILIAN" NEW YORK. 110 EAST 23RD ST., NEW YORK. Edison Manufacturing Company, — JIOTOR OUTFITS, EDISON • KINETOSCOPES • MEDICAL • APPARATUS, Dental and Surgical Motor Outfits. ^ . Eobv-lWh..,. . L. Loo Warner, nacj,. , Holt, iiorfoll:, inyland, Doar cir:- notasvias further to you?? lotto?? to tic or J3ooo«i>or 10th., iBOd, ana our reply thereto of Dooonber noth., 1003, ana In ora or to avoid any nloundor standing on your part, v/o aoolro to r;.ay, that the oanoollatlon roforred to In nowioo affects contraeto or naloo of nnohinoo nado pre¬ viously by the Continental oorraorco Co., and, therefore, in nowioo nf~ footod your Contract with oaid Company. v.o would aloe otato furthor that tho letter of oanoollatlon referred to has boon recalled, and tho relatione between Hr. Udicon and tho continental Conviorco coztpany ro- otorod on tho fornor baolo, tho ear*? no though oaid oanoollatlon had nevor been node. V/o v/ould also further ntato that tho contract between tho Contl- nontcl conuoroo company and your coif liao boon approved by vts, "dioon. fiio letter oont to you by tho writer wart written before he v/aa fully infornod an to the exact oituation, and at a tine when a copy of tho Contract between youroolf and tho continental Ooranoroo pospniv wao not in oui’ pooooaalon. ao to this our lottor finnhins possibly that you ray have gotten the wrony ir^e colon matter, wo ha at on to not you ri£ht and therefore rannietnont -o ao to cl vo you tho situation exaotlv ao it o-'ictc*. Your a very truly. \73G/HDH. General Ilnnager, I have changed my plans and returned to this country In order to have a talk with you with reference to our business relations. Mr. Stapleton, who has been in charge of our London office and is inter¬ ested heavily with us, also returned on the same steamer, and he will verify my statements and be present. The point of the greatest importance wit\uB is, that we are in a position, because of our financial connections in London through the success that we have already made and daily are making, to place your European business on a plane that will be eminently tatisfactory to your self. The quickest way to demonstrate to you that we are making sub¬ stantial progress in a financial and in a business way in London, is to 6hy that among our frequent callers at our office in Dashwood House, are Mr .William Cunard, Mr. E.H. Cunard, principal owners of the Cunard Line of Steamships; Albert G, Sandemann, Governor of the Bank of England; sir Charles Hunter, Captain Hamond, of the Admiralty; Col. Lane of General Wo Is ley's StaffMr. George Matthey, senior member of the firm of Johnson, Matthey & Co., the largest platinum and gold refiners in the world; Col. Boswell-Preston ; Count Sergardi ; MrB . Adair; Miss Keysor, principal owner of Johannis Limited; and many others of equal prominence in finan¬ cial and social circles in Great Britain. We also have thedorsement of Gen. Collins, United States Consul General, and Col. Montgomery. European Financial Agent of the United States Treasury. We are actively engaged in business with these people and all of the above are frequently in and out of our office. This being the fact then, it hurts us to see a man who is a Juggler and acrobat infla music hall, who happens to have made 100 Pounds kwm investment on an option of the Vitascope, going around among prominent people in London showing his documents as controlling your name and invention. _ „ 1 recognize that you will say to me that "you made a contract with Raff & Gammon and should be content to stand by it". I call your atten¬ tion to the fact that I told Messrs. Raff & Gammon that I would sign any sort of a contract they would bring, provided I could get over to London and look the situation over and retire from it if it was not sat¬ isfactory. I arrived in London to find any number of machines working there, and working successfully, many of which utilize the films that we- a®!1* that the patents are absolutely worthless, and that the only asset that Raff & Gammon have is your name, and we are informed by Raff & Gam¬ mon's own representative that he was told to. keep away from us and was not given our address in Europe, f QJLu tf6-'-afl®neJ paper, suppression of tho light. u.tmn.su tlio scintillation duo to tho periodic ‘Larisa ■sayra *“>, ■ °> »■. eccentric B may bo voplacod by a crank cam or other nT0'"011^ l)i!rtlaularly tho 40 an alternate motion with dead point and ofibetinu the nf"* glV'nt0St?1’Ili0, 0r z,oolroPio -2i> occontnc, cam or crank giving a to and fro motion to P ? r ‘° 3?ro,°n dlso. the “f rS.th0S° P°intS dHring th0 P°rioJ ootrcspondin^'witli^lho'^reposo pictures '"'honPused^for^vioudngUei^orl,diractVI«'8hv,r0n,^"P!'0^0glia^*0 or zoutr°P>c “ * S‘u roStanS? ashoroin mnployod'ta fl* !'^j°?!°?b^“o-photogrnph?oI o^soot^kPpioturos^sui^nlially^as "mroin^ho'wn and described. •36 -Dated Dcci or 10th 1895. 23 So,.H * & MILLS, 2d Southampton Buddings, London, W.C., Agonls. noryOraoo.brDnrllnsiSon.ltd.— Pis [ENCLOSURE] .A.D. 1895. Arim. 8. Mf. 7187. MILLS’ I’lioviKtoKAL Sfhoipioation. (2 V1 Edition) cJi ^ — ^^t^v-v C^L - — C -o-^Sb &A ^*- tzbsu^ C .'. . . .' V y / s/ ^-C-t»— *— s y ■yi-/t'H-VLt/^01^\ /£}* ^A-Ar _ 8_ ^O^dst£^& ^2 ^ clyZt-t/Lt, (_,. , &-A'Ack^i!-> ^c. <5^ -^2-t>- Ua ^ _^s2^- — L--^ — — sA^<— su-r*yy. C^At^y-^ tyu-'V—N. ! ’•V'J'-'-'G- AusA -&C^ a^ il /Zt>AA*j6 — ^^iAAeA, '^+-*-' 'T^sJA O-n-w— ^ - 1 ^ZAA '/^-y ~vt & ^ * _ _ _ . '<* /k.^1 c^o^w. stAu*A j i^O~nA\ — -<. , 3AA>x^ ZAZA Av^y /0 CyX~ <3-/bXXe0t_ ^ «- , ■-- mA&A /jL^st-^~<_^ 3 0 . Q C . ^ • . . rr— . : . I AA~.dAAM~ . JOSH*” PHONOGRAPH DICTATION. JSdwMo’S&fiuaHy Ico'K") 7 WMcv/a -■■.'mm ■, July , — 9&*St£ Mess, Maguire & Bauous, Limited. #44 Pine St. new York. Dear Sirs: Replying to yours 30th. ulto. asking the privilege of using on your letter heads "Foreign Repre¬ sentatives of Thos. A. Edison", I beg to say, I do not approve of it. Yours very truly, MAGUIRE & BAUCUS, LIMITED, 44 PINE STREET, NEW YORK, July 29th, Edison Manufacturing Co., Gentlemen:- V i.AiE'L r for 50 I a deliver M Enclosed herewith we send you our order for 5b {Projecting Kinetoscopes , or Edison Projectoscopes ; these machines deliverable as quickly as lo clear films can accompany each machine, with the exception of the first 6 machines, which are to' be supplied to us immediately, one of which machines is to be used in this country, not for exhibition, but for the purpose of examining films. It would be a matter of gratifica¬ tion to us if, you would give us these first 5 machines with all possible dispatch, as it will be a factor :in the business to show a good machine at once. We have no faith in patents in connection with this particular line of business, and relieve the factory of any responsibility from patent litigation in connection with any of the'qe machine s: we sbll. It is understood that the agency which holds good on the Kineto- scope also applies in connection with this new form of the same; that no films or materials are to be supplied from the factory for others until such time as we fail to do business to the satisfaction of Mr. Edison. With reference to the matter of the proposed order for 40 machines which are to be billed to us and sold through us as your agents, we would say that we fear that there has been some misapprehension concern¬ ing the matter of the rate of speed that the films are to be delivered to the party who buys. For instance, Mr. Edison said something about the rate being as 50 is to 40, as per the orders for machines. We do not want to do anything that would serve to change the order in any way, or give you the idea that we are not willing to stand to our statement, but does it not seem to you that our duty is to protect the orders already in to as great an extent as possible, and therefore we would suggest that only 25^ of our output of films be given on this order. We believe that the resulj of yesterday's conference will serve to clear the air. We are most anxious to do business without friction, and I suggest that we all endeavor to keep cool and get down to business as quickly as possible. Yours very truly, [ATTACHMENT] 5 - - fH , { ,; . . " ■ / j " . ^ /£c*-«A*-0 — 1896. Motion Pictures - Raff & Gammon (D-96-19) This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of Raff & Gammon, which held the rights to market Edison’s kinetoscope and films in the United States and Canada. Included are letters about the firm’s attempt to obtain boxing films controlled by the Kinetoscope Exhibiting Co. and the termination of Raff & Gammon’s agency by the Edison Manufacturing Co. All the documents have been filmed. EDISON-LALANB'E BATTERY. 4 0 EAST 2^ALEgROOM® : Edison Manufacturing Company, — *=^FAN HOTOR OUTFITS,^***— EDISON • KINETOSCOPES • MEDICAL - APPARATUS, Dental and Surgical Motor Outfits. Hencre. Raff s-. Gammon, 43 v;. 30th St., Dear siro: Hoy / York City. .July....2Q+....ia9G... . . /cTJ> I hoc to advice that tho arrangement no to your handling Kinotoooopoo, Rilne, oto., in tho Unltod Staton and Canada, no per my letters of Juno lot and Juno 17th, 1G05, and no referred to in your communiontiono of liny 17th and Juno 5th, 1395, in hereby, cancelled, and. I doolro to ndvioo you that thin nrrancomont will oeaoe and determine thirty dayo from thin date. She reason that 1 terminate the arrangement la, that the huninono hao oomo to praotloally n otand-otill, and I prefer to ho free to. make any other arranseraont that may offer itaolf , v;lth reference to Kinetoocopen, eto. I think you oan appre¬ ciate tiio juotloo of m y pooition In thin matter. Youro very truly, 4 Raff Si Gammon LATEST MARVEL CIk Vifascopc EDISON Kl NETOSCOPE . . . THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH Postal Telegraph Building, 253 Broadway ELECTRIC DE8IQN8, Et f ijdsLju Le, ^ mr0f^ fil'l/L 'TL-ty'b O VCy- 'H^fc &Jr Wi|b ^ yi\) TlA~(s ^(~^n , "KURILIAN0" NEW YORK. EDISON-LALANDE BATTERY. SALESROOMS: 110 EAST 23RD ST., NEW YORK. / bdison Manufacturing Company, — *^^FAN nOTOR OUTFITS, EDISON • KINETOSCOPES • MEDICAL • APPARATUS, Dental and Surgical Motor Outfits. ... JIM® — 3,-isoa^-- / Uorjorc. Saff & Gnr.imon, 43 v. natu st . , ■Hfw Yorfc city. Gentiomen: or. to foooipt of you* favor of lot , OMool^ Ol,oolt f °n Ul° ?lrth Ave- a>*-'nw TOM City, dated July Olot, 1000, for 5*00.00, uhl.h ™ i,a,o Passed to tho orodit of you,, aoodunt ?1„, than*,, uo notioo that tan oheox is oijnod -Tho Vltacoopo do. , ho 0 Itaff, Treasurer., hut.ao ,o do not hnor this oonoorn, no or«ut «" direct to your account. ® “ 10 »»* intontion to ,,,ito us «,**** f01.olG„ buoino do . , abort ly . . Youro very truly, rsG/ivp General Manager. 1896. Patents (D-96-20) This folder contains correspondence and other documents from Edison’s patent attorneys and agents relating to domestic and foreign patent applications, patent litigation, and other patent matters. Included are letters pertaining to patents for the kinetoscope, the phonograph, and ore milling machinery. There is also a translation of Charles Weyher’s 1880 French patent on the phonograph. Most of the letters are by Richard N. Dyer and the law firm of Dyer & Driscoll. Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine correspondence about patent interferences and renewals, application fees, taxes, and other routine transactions; letters of transmittal. We have arranged with Dr. Morton to eome to the lab¬ oratory Saturday morning for the purpose of repeating the ex¬ periments conducted last Tuesday and to experiment with the additional material which you had in course of preparation. We shall be glad if you will see that everything is ready for the experiments, so that Dr. Morton will not be kept waiting. Yours very truly. T. A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N. J., Dear Sir:- We beg to inform you that the Commissioner of Pat¬ ents has reversed the Board of Examiners-in-Chlef . . . " . ■ . -v CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES, DISTRICT 0? MASSACHUSETTS . IH EQUITY. No. 630. AMERICAN ORAPHOPHONE COOT ANY ' THE NEW ENGLAND PHONOGRAPH COMPANY ET AL. OPINIO?! OP THE COURT. Juna 19, 1896. CARPENTER, District Judge. This is a bill in equity to restrain an al¬ leged infringement of certain letters patent tor apparatus for recording and reproducing sounds, knoY/n ns graphophones. The respondents plead a license from the complainant and issue has been joined and evidence has'boon taken. I do not think it will be useful for me to detail the arguments and considerations which have been taken into the account in determining the ques¬ tions thus raised. I have reached the conoln- j p sion that the contracts made by the complainant fn the sixth of August, 1388, with Jesse H. Lip- ilnoott, amount to an adoption and ratification tt the contracts made by him and under which the ♦espondents claim; and that the oomplainanfc is (stopped to deny the rights of the parties to those last-named contracts to carry out the pro- rislons thereof. The bill will therefore be dismissed. i : ! | _ ~~ 1 .i OH- P LAW OFFICES, specialty : patents DYER Sl DRISCOLL. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange , New Jersey. Bear Sir:- We enclose original U. S. Letters Patent No. 564, 423, granted the 21st inst., to yourself, on your Improvement in Processes of Separating Ores. Kindly acknowledge receipt. Yours very truly, \ cH- Bear Sir:- We enclose original United States Letters Patent No. 567,187, granted the 8th inst., to yourself, on your Im¬ provement in Crushing Rolls. Kindly acknowledge receipt. Yours truly. (Enel . ) f/~n^ 0 • cy proposition made by you during the present week; otherwise, you may consider Mr. Edison's proposition as withdrawn and the negotiations at an end. ' A word to you on my personal account . T think you have overlooked the real situation. After weeks of negotiation, during which we disagreed only as to the amount which should be paid to cover damages, you stated orally the terms most favorable to Mr. Edison whieh you would recommend your Company to accept. I suuceed- ed. in getting Mr. Edison to agree to these terms, and thereupon 1 wrote you a letter dated November 30th, 1B96, offering, on Mr. Edison’s behalf, to settle on these terms. At the time of writing that letter, T expected to have your reply, accepting the offer, within' a day or two, because you promised to put it before your directors at once, and, as you have often told me, what you recom¬ mend will be probably aocepted by them. Relying on this, I repre- seated to Mr. Edison that tho settlement of tha suit was an accom¬ plished fact. After a lapse of upwards of three weeks, T now learn from you that you have not put tho offer to your company; but that you now prppose for tho first time, as a condition preced¬ ent to settlement, that Mr. Edison bring in a company not a party to the suit, and not in tha contract situation, and have that com¬ pany by speoial agreement make itself a party to that situation. Knowing the high reputation of yourself and your associates for fair and honorable dealing, T fool that it is only necessary for me to call your attention to the real situation to load you to take the action contemplated at the time T wrote my letter of November 30th. Yours very truly, Richd. N. Dyer. 1896. Phonograph - Edison United Phonograph Company (D-96-23) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Edison United Phonograph Co. Included are letters pertaining to the formation of phonograph syndicates in France and Italy; the organization of the Deutsche Edison Phonographen Gesellschaft; and the operations of the British phonograph syndicate, the Edison-Bell Phonograph Corporation, Ltd. Some of the items deal with efforts to reorganize the E. U.P.C.; other letters discuss technical problems with the phonograph. At the end of the folder is a two-page statement of the company’s assets. Many of the letters in this folder were authored by, or sent to, Stephen F. Moriarty, the company’s general manager; among these is a lengthy letter to Senator Thomas C. Platt regarding the history of the E.U.P.C. and its relationship with Edison. Other correspondents include G. N. Morison, secretary of the E.U.P.C.; William A. Smith of the Edison-Bell Phonograph Corporation; and Ludwig Stollwerck of the Deutsche Edison Phonographen Gesellschaft. 6 y Approximately 70 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: nonsubstantive correspondence concerning meeting arrangements and other routine company business; untranslated foreign-language documents in French and German; personal correspondence and other letters by Moriarty unrelated to the phonograph business; duplicate copies of selected items. ' rjj -n— JhdA/ JLlLp'nOtvJ day*, XJCaA ' -Ag\Jc .jj-'WL Js /U-CJUArtth^ j') ! 'l&JU ^'j-vx CLaaj /^]acaj ^triAAJ CCucL/ 0~ij~yL cJ~^ 7fo iZuy cu^ct /k&juAj todtosM -vy> /[^aj ‘^ucJLcue. cO y/o " 9y\JJi/ly /bAsb c(jysWC>UU&i«u Ojf /L&XJU 'fyfylMG. ’slA/l/ Jju Ccuuy rryaJku Ou fLcur /vcUosuls bdasuyusu oyj, Guilds ■ , ■ 0 0 i . n — r~ OlAJL^ CU^dj QnncUuL Oy Qj^auicdo ^Q'-ULbc vjy^k AsUhtL Auyu> ZAAAdtrcUi^u UtOsVvuusj £u^o cy^cL ^ gLlU- 'cCm, ifo do /Joctir :- 3' iArirutcls CK~cLa/\SiJU Jd\CKs(r\ ~L$\IL' (yVLtA\&A.I fxj sjxauch hdU |rn WvC ojr- (MsQJLs. "I 1^ Qtyk&JkSU rrJLur fiJUb-. J\- /Urffu^i-s 'j^'irw ~LcUri cv 0- CT^ d~s qr- j& /■ td#ns lO/Ul -IstJy QvkJL; ■J-<^~-4c-><— ~ ,sC _ L PG~» G - - t£*S*U >T^ c^eu— u~*^> s^E-Kl w*. -f v Z ' [ATTACHMENT] ~to" ?Xs-0 d-v| tiuL, 2. IX. f^eo-*S>C - - -vrx^A- c4— ^La tn^r ^ r __ lu^=nw*GW- sasn.4c^ <9 JL«_ CL P^ ^ 1 have only this morning returned to the office^ after a week of very considerable suffering and I am not at all cer- S tain whether 1 shall be able to go to London to-morrow or not, but I j shall do so if 1 feel it is wise on my part to riBk it. ! 1 asked our people tb xx write you that I should have no ! further communication with Mr. Stollwerek until I heard from you, ! but I do trust you will not take any impetuous action as I feel quite ! sure that it will all come right in a very short time and that you l will have no reason to regret your transaction with him, although I ] admit that it is very annoying to have so many trifling objections put in the way. As regards the umpleasant incident which took place on Christmas day, if I am not in London, please do not refer to it in any Y/ay, I ask this as a personal favor as these things always lead to a certain amount of ill feeling and they 'are better avoided. By adopfrintr the course 1 have suggested you will very much oblige, Yours faithfully. P.'S. 1 wish you-a Happy and Prosperous New Year. 2 Enel: 9th January, 1896. Stephen F. Mori arty, Esq, h 0 N D 0 N. Dear Mr Moriarty, Enclosed please find two qiTicial letters to your Firm. Have the kindness to give directly your ihll attention to them, so that we lose not a minute Tor having the machine. We beg to rel'er also to the design, which -its send here¬ with , and trust that now everything is clear to you. About all the other questions we will write to you to¬ morrow or in a day or .two, but we herewith again beg to ask you, to look over about all the letters, which we have sent vou during the past three weeks in which' are enclosed more or less important 9th January/ 1896. Edison United Company, L 0 N D O M. Dear Sirs, We have herewith the pleasure to transmit you a copy of our original order of 3rd November, Your Mr Moriart.y like to have this copy and we transmit it therefore again to you, but we do not like to lose another minute on having t he machine and we therefore request ycu to send directly a respective cable to New- York. We hope that everything in this let t er is quit e clear and th that the machine will be first rate. We, will directly repeat, that we like to have them in dark oa'k, according to the s an ole of wood which we have sent to you already in September. Also you must use Germm silver or what we call in Germany new silver frame for the gl ass ,, so that the machine looks nicer than your present1 machine do. We also repeat the order for the machine to make the cylinders and hope that you will make it as good, as quickly, aid as cheap in our mutual interest as possible. Hoping soon to hear from ycu, ’we are. Dear Sirs, Yours truly, ’ (Signed) Deutsche; Rdi son-Phonographen-Gese.U schaft, mit beschrankter Haftung, ^ , .Ludwig Stollwerck. manufacturing rights for Germany, 'In the form consented tov . bytho attorneys for tho Gorman parties,’ and also a oopy pf " .tho same. . . ; . . . . Please send the c’opy' to Mebsrs. AshurBt, Morris, Crisp & Co., with instructions to show^iV to the Solioitor for tho German Company, and to notify him thalt you hold the original, which you are ready to deliver to him “upon p'ayment to you of the payments provided for tiy the German contra o t, ' to wit: One hundred thousand Harks d'bwh, and a note for . One hundred thousand Marks’, “payabl'e in :one year, which they have the privilege of di'ebbufi'tihg at the’ rate of Five "per ;T f cent., and which? I understand, they intend to pay atpre- ( sent. '■■’-•v ■■ .1 . I have had difficulty’ "in o.bfaining this last re- I ■ ■ -■ V • . : ' ' . ' . • ' 1 lease from Mr. Bdi'son, and he has signed it Upon two’ oondi- " 1 tiona: 1. That you aot as jhis agent’s for ’ths reosipt of one- | quarter of the purohaso pries'; 2.' 'Unless the Germane -make j their payment within a week" after thejr'have seen the' form”of I ” • ~t V?:- ' ! - j release ;“’you are to return it to me”. ’ ■ j s. B. No. 2. V Of oourse, should you receive such assurances dur¬ ing the week as will lead you reasonably to believe that the' . payment b, will be made within a very short time, you may'*iee; ■> your discretion in' keeping the release a little longer',' As soon as you receive payment', you may receipt 'for the same on behalf of the Eai son United Phonograph Comply, . if that is necessary, as you are 'since 10.90 the fiscal, 1 agents for that Company, ..and you shoi*M immediately cable'; the. 'entire amount received to New York. - *• . , . . Yours very -truly , ■J//Wa> $e/mtn< 'jf/cw/M .S%&e/iiwy ^tayffi-KltWr.id wJor//t. t/i/iOf/mm rflLLS BUILDING. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N. J, Dear Sir:- We are just in re.oeipt of a letter from the Edison-Bell Phonograph Corporation, limited, in which' they insist upon having the receipt for making wax cylinders. We sent them on the 10th of December, a copy of a letter received from the Phonograph Works, dated December 9th, a copy of which we annex to this letter, and they claim that any failure on the part of this Company to furnish them with the information asked for, is a breach of their contract with us. We do not wish that you and we should be involved in ex¬ pensive lawsuits, and while we have no doubt that our Agreerrents with you cover all appliances and improvements relating to the Phonograph, including the manufacture of wax for cylinders, which is. as much a^ part of the Phonograph as anything, yet we can under¬ stand your desire to keep the formula a secret, and we hope you can suggest a method by which the English Company will be able to make use of your formula dhl'such- ai maftner ’that<,%heL-g. ^pvw^, •4 YYwpx» *3 A-© {^ /’VVvv'uiy^r vi^jaa ^ PwCv^ __ o i ^tu4hi- Owe 4=0 lAjo&laffi Qisa ^ S&stfyJZeL, cVktV v t) OtP cat f £r7>-t» ' 5 ^KxJ^fo Qs\g, _ - /Cj O-^d Svow - ^C_rvt^ rcegcAV£¥*o Q<^ (\JLzo cg^St^s^A^ oJilL. •vu.m *4- J iuruutu 'hrdLtx.'.j £ t : ' '7 " j i > yo.^.. ztt " it- aJJL t/w| rjlajcL LB ymu^ /,;,. . / bL^ L. io /lex- th-^t. Ct-t- /udLajtLc,^ to tbo Iuom^. A-CAji-t, ^crct- /UL-crtoJLcL. 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'f ~tL, , ^Mr‘ "Dear Sir:- U "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter "of the 21st inBt., with regard to the formula for tha making "of wax for the cylinders, and enclosing copies of letters "by the Edison Bell Company and by the Works with regard to "the same matter. "I shall be pleased to give you Xha formula whioh "I have personally used in the manufacture of wax to the "English Company, if desired, although I should expect them "to take the necessary precautions to keep the composition a pwe#ewid secret. As a matter of fact I have not bothered "myself by the preparation of this wax for the last two "years, as I have had my hands full of other business. The •entire preparation of the wax composition was turned over "to a man who manufactures it for the Works, and whatever im¬ provements he has made therein are entirely his own secret. "I ought further to state that I had considerable "trouble with the wax that I manufactured, on account of its "gritiness, and most likely the Bdison Bell Company would •have considerable difficulty and be at a considerable expense "in making the necessary tests and experiments to eliminate "these bad qualities. Whatever improvement there Js in the •manufacture of this wax I have had no hand in, but^s due "entirely to the man about whom I have spoken, and peshaps ■the English Company might prefer under the circumstances "to purohaBe the wax composition, as manufactured by this man, ■and make their own cylinders with the machinery and in ae- "oordanoe with the information which the Manager of the Edison "Phonograph Works would cheerfully \ furnish them." T. A. E. No. 2. “X in aka this suggestion merely because it^-soems to "tiA to be the quickest and simplest way out ofJtfiediff iculty, "although, aB I have said, I am perfectly wjl£ing to reveal ■any knowledge I may have on the subject yr/ I beg to enclose the lettejr^Owioh you left down stairs yesterday. ' Very truly yours, /bn** V^/r?d**A-*>^, <&**>* £Jd*atn*' 'U*/£ tur^- ^ie**4**'t’ dt/Lv^+sy /k*£RA-4& sh**&** ,. r*£o~ *^bdL*pH***~ *'/*ht?*P^I** _^£ complete v/as their proof that it 10 was aiding and abetting sellers ;he lidi son- Bell Company, in addition i- gilts they believed they were sr £10,000, and if the Edison-Bell amount it w ail d have m ade a very idit side of their Balance Sheet, to "declare a satisfactory 10. dividend upon the good firm conmorcial business, which they had inauguarated even in spite of all the opposition that was given them by Mr Edison. Then came the process of building up a commercial busi¬ ness, the public mind being prejudiced to an extreme degree at the idea of taking a machine and displacing a stenographer, and this was met By a strong objection from a body known as the Stenograph¬ ers Association, who did everything they could to oppose the intro¬ duction of this machine, but notv/iths landing all that, the Edison- B®U Company have persisted in what they believed was a right poli cy, and they have been very patient, and have finally succeeded in convincing themselves. There was a time when they believed they were mistaken because the difficulties to surmount were so great; but I am very happy to stato, and I do so with no little pride, that the judgment that I first had of the commercial utility of the graphophone and the Phonograph as a useful adjunct to every day business .Life, has been confirmed absolutely, and now unquestionably by the results which have been obtained by the .Edi son-Bell Pnonograph Corporation. Of ccurse there hav d been many men who subscribed for commercial machines who tried to use than, and through som a fault of disposition or tefriperam ent put then aside because they would not take the time to learn just the little things which have to be over-cone to make this machine a u. success, they forgetting that this is a machine and not a human being. What it does , it does so vfe.ll- that they think it should do more without any mechanical devices- or appliances. However, to the other class of business men, who are u«4nr tho machine, and I em happy to toll you that that class of real users of tho commer¬ cial machine is. in the great majority now, they once having master¬ ed the machine car rut do without it, and would as soon do without thei>’ telephone., or their typewriters as do without the commercial Phonograph. It has taken ail this timo to convince the Directors of the J3di son-Bell Comp any that this was the exact fact, and that' thi s machine was really a necessity to every day commercial life, and I an glad to tsll you that, they are now, each and every one of then, more convinced of this fact than I am myself; and not only they, but the absolute users of the commercial Phonograph are enthuiastic over the great saving of time and labour 'Which the Phonograph gives then, and each day now applications come in for the commercial machine from real usees to Increase the facilities for transacting their business. It is to this point that I desire specially to call attention, for it will aid in determining whether - novf that this point has bean absolutely achieved after years of patient wait, ing and of struggle,- it would be wise to make any change in the existing policy of the Company until arrangan ents were made for the acquisition of territory by people la¬ in Europe, who are now convinced of the conmercial value of the machine, and which will viva to our- Shareholders a substantial return i'or their patience in waiting. These statements can be absolutely verified by the facts, and will place a value on the Commercial Phonograph beyond question for its intrinsic value alone, and not the speculative value of the amusement side of the bus .in css . Mow in relation to the policy of sailing machines for the amisemont side of the business, I desire to call your attention to tiie state of the business known as the Kinetoscope and the T'inetophone, carried on directly by two men known as Maguire and Banlais , who purport to be the Agents of Mr Edison? and to the absolute collapse, in a very unsavory manner, of the business which they undertook to carry out here; and which on account of tie association of the name of Mr Edison with these people has had not an altogether agreeable effect- upon our business in this country. Some months ago a machine called the Kinetoscope, and- later the Kinet.ophons , was placed throughout London and Great Britain in a great in any places. It was a nine days wonder. In my judgment there never was a novelty born so quick and died so quickly. Many shops were opened in London for the purpose of exhibiting these Kinetoseopes , but the public here are not easily deceived, and when they found that there was no novelty in this so called Kinoto- 13. sc op o, Which was only a char®# from the old wheal of life, (which-- t’Kj.-a people saw when they were children, and to another machine which was exhibited sane years ago , and which v/as a much bett. y machine) they did not patronise them and consequently those shops were deserted at night time by the Agent;:, and in many cases T an infotmed tha rent for the shops v/as not paid, the tern applied to than herp being known and characterized in the papers as that there was "another Kin etoscope moonlight flitting", which means that they took the Kin otoscope away daring the night, and left the rant arid other things unpaid. This, of course, I report only to show you the character of the men engaged in this Kiner-oscope and Kinetophone bus in as a. Whether they were direct representatives of Maguire or Backus or not I do not know, still Maguire and Bankus have been the instruments through which this fiasco was placed in BUrope, and they are, I believe, accordingly held accountable. How this man Maguire has used our Phonographs in an illegal v/ay throughout Europe, and the Ed: a on- Bell Company have brought suit ... against him for infringement of their Patents as he has been dealing with illegal Phonographs in their territory as well. The particular end in view which I want to call attention to by the narration of these facts is, that the Phonograph as an amusement feature has only the most narrow and limited kind of life, and I do not believe that throughout Europe, under the very 14. bust conditions, that a sale for* than to any extent could he made, no matter what may be said to tns contrary. T have studied the facts, and believe that it would be impossible for our Company or our Directors fo ever realize one penny of profit out of any anticipated sales of Phonographs by retailing thorn themselves or permitting others to do so for than. The only way and the only possible chance the Directors have of getting their money back is to get interest in a substantial business by the selling of their territory to men who have the intention to build up a sound commer¬ cial business on the lines that have been already laid down to a satisfactory extent in England by t,he Edison-Bej.1 Company, and taking such advantage of the amusement side as the conditions in each country permit. In this v/ay the oomnercial business will not only be worked up to its extreme limit and full advantage, but also the amusement feature of the machine can be better "forked as well. It would be foolish to endeavour to sell one thousand or tvfo thousand Phonographs, which would be the extreme limit,, and this of course would take a long time for people to do, and there would be no profit in it, whereas if the policy of the Company as it exists is maintained, it i3 now an assured fact seeing that the value of the property has been absolutely demonstrated by the results which will bear any careful investigation, achieved by the Edison-Bull Co:, that we can get large sums of money -and one third interest from strong people in different countries, now that we have disposed of Germany, and negotiations are well under way for Austria, France and Belgium, not counting the arrangements already under way for Switzerland. Any attempt now to interfere with this policy would be dangerous, as only now at the present moment has it been demonstrated beyond guest, ion of doubt that it is the right policy, because the difficulties that have heretofore been jnrt in the way have been enormous, and if the present policy is — adhered to I have no doubt that I will be able to accomplish the sale of Austria, France, and Belgium, and that I can Him here with the people who now believe that the comnercial Phonograph is a success, a Company that will take over all our rights, title, and interest that we have for all the countries of the 7/orld, and pay us a very substantial sum in cash, and give us one-third interest in their business, they putting up a large amount of working capital, and will conduct the business in all its features on the best and most economic business principles, and T think it would be a most serious mistake, and an absolute prevention to our Company getting any money, except in mere driblets, if the policy was to be changed now. I place these facts before you so that you may be able to reflect these pjiinions, and to give weight to any arguments that may be made. X am in a position to state to-day that the 16. Edi s on-Bell Company, each and ovary member of the Board of Directors, is no w convinced and are prepared t,o state absolutely and unmistakably as to the merits and qualities of the commercial machine, and they are backed up by hundreds of the leading firms here, who find pro at use for the commercial machine, sane machines being used from morning to night, constantly, and each machine, to my satisfaction, -ive no evidence of 'year, tear, or depreciation, and it seems, the more these machines aroused the better they " become. This is a flat contradiction of Mi1 Edison's statements t,p me after vie had paid him for these machines that they would not last six months. Some of them have been in constant operation for the last t wo years, and are better machines to-day in every shspe and manner than the new machines that were sent here a short time ago, which machines I shall have to treat with in a separate letter. • X place these facts before you feeling that you should not take any steps that would charge the policy of the Company, for now that the position of the Company is so secure, and has beei made so by the demonstration of the earirnercial business, it wmld be an injury and a positive detriment to our Stockholders, and they would have sane reason for calling in question any acts of the Board oi' Directors which might be detrimental to their interest, and I feel it my duty now to warn then, that any proposed • 17. en'fengements being made with mount eb arks, who profess, to repre- sen t Mr Edison, or any arrangement mad 9 with Mr Edison for his own selfish interest, End v/liiuh would not be for the benefit of the Stockholders, T have the knowl edge which can be proven without question that it would be detrimental to the Stockholders to con¬ template any each change, and the Directors will have the respons¬ ibility of that^deciaion to meet, and X feel that in warning them I n nve discharged my duty and they must abide by 'the consequences , for it is certain that the rights of the Stockholders must be pro¬ tected. There are certain rights which stockholders have, and which are recognized by Courts of Law, and if the Directors are intimidated by Mr Edison they will find that sane Stockholders are not made of that kind of clay, and they will bring this matter to a direct issue in the. only place that they can hope to get. justice, and that is in a Court of Law. This -matter has gone quite far enough, and as the representative of the Company in Eli rip Europe X claim now that this Company has demonstrated its position in i-elation to the value of its Patents. The charges of fraud that this Company has made publicly against Mr Edison it cannot retract, and it is quite as well that this Company should maintain the dignity of its position and its independence^ and- not be coerced by Mr Edison or anybody else. Pursue the policy it h as pursued, and I have no hesitation in saying I will be successful?'- as there are representative men, well known .Cor their financial integrity and financial strength in several of the countries of Hu r op e , who are willing to join with the Edi son-Bell Company to acquire our Patents for valuable consideration in money, and will pay for them a natch larger sum than could ever be acquired out of the retailing of the machines even before the expiration of our Patents, which have in some of the countries yet eight years to I feel that these views 'of mine above expressed should be very carefully considered before any att emp t is made to con¬ ciliate Mr Edison, -who has always insisted upon being conciliated, and who has every time practised a corresponding aiiount of deceit on our Company, always looking to be protected first in every arrangem ent and in every act, without one possible exception, and you will find that Mr Edison is there first to get the lions share of everything, and this has been the manner he has always treated us. V la only want from him the manufacturing rights for one, or at the most two other countries, and then we would be free from his arbitrary interferences and coercion, and if the Company will take the matters in its own hands and stand by its policy and pro¬ tect its faithful representatives, it will receive a substantial recognition in the shcj.e of an immediate sale of its property for’ valuable c onsiderat ioi 19. . Trus tin*' that this review of the history will not be tedious to yen, but feeling that it is necessary to have sons explanation of the position as it exists to-day, and not looking at it, from Mr Kdi son's standpoint but from our own, X feel that if these surest ions which I send are used only in relation to - the best interests of our Company that some food results may be achieved. ( TCe/Acarff) Cffimwi (w'/tm/H Hki/i/*iiA SrAjW/' 7,icrS7/ir6 -Affix*- - ^sfcrss. \5~0 ^ Zfi&A, y /s£z , S' o / &&C dt+uAfsi** fi- 0 , & D / ^ v V 3\£T, & o JtL> \ji£&t't't- ^ oo / y£r ^;f . o o / S?>cy6 j/vi 0ecAirtt£^ /jL. a o / <,Marqh...lOth,1.8.9.6.,,. Thomas A. Edison, ] Orange, w. ,t, Pear Sir:- 1 have already notified Mr. Dyer that Mr. Cook- ran will be at the Laboratory tomorrow (Wednesday) at about noon, in order to execute with you the transfer of the one quarter interest in the German Company stock from the Edison United company to the Works. This paper will have to be acknowledged before a Notary, and 1 would like you to arrange to have a Notary present to take the acknowledgments, and then have the paper duly legalized before the German Consul and sent to me. This is the German document about which Mr. Dyer spoke to you a few days ago. 1 was very sorry to hear of your recent loss, and tender you my sincere sympathy.' Yours very truly. [PHOTOCOPY] V\ PW- vv ^(p». _ _ _ <* - r ' ,u~<( -« ts- L~rr^ Thomas Alva Edison Esq. Orange. New Jersey. U. S. A. Dear Sir, DICTATED THROUGH THE EDISON-BELL PHONOGRAPH. I>ast week(as Chairman of the Edison-Beil Phonograph Corporation,) I received a cable from the Edison United Co, intimating that Mr. Moriarty's powers were at an end. As I believe you are a very considerable shareholder in the Edison United Co. X venture to address you on the subject and to express my regret that this action should have been taken. .As far as I am concerned I have been able to work with Mr. Moriarty in a straight forward and business like way and I can assure you that it is largely due to his careful and anxious desire to run straight and get things into good condition that the relations, have been kept in such. a friendly groove between ourselves and the . Edison United Co. I need not poifct out to you that we have had very much to complain of and have just and heavy claims against the Edison United Co. We have no desire ,'ih the world to enter into a period of conflict and 1 think it is most unfortunate that Just at this junc¬ ture when several important negotiations are on hand that the Edisop v£u United Co should have done what your celebrated President*, said they should never do, swap horses while crossing a stream.* As regards the development of the Phonograph in Britain*.. I know that probably your views and mine are not exactly alike, as understand you have always advocated the sale of these machines, whereas 1 have been very strongly impressed with the. idea that to begin with at all events the machines should only be leased. 1 believe that the basis upon which our"commercial“busin- ess has been established is a sound one and I think the result will prove that to you, before very long. Unfortunately for. the Phonograph.it feil into the hands of men on this side of the channel, . whose great desire was to adver¬ tise themselves and to get in with people in a high rank of life j, by shewing them what they considered a*scientific . curios ity*or a / wonderful mechanical*' toy "and the opinions of people in this country are that the Phonograph' was nothing taore. - ■ ,L ;•■■■: • <>•?•> To eradicate thi^erroneous impression has been the work of great time and trouble ^ I am more than satisfied- with the steady and continuous progress which we have made and the fact is proved by the diminution of .our revenue from what I call the “toy * element and the steady and continuous improvement in our revenue ■ ; from Comme rc ial s ourc es . . : Like the Typewriter, this machine: has to be' introduced . with great perseverance, but I am equal convinced, that like the typewriter when it once takes a hold in this country there will be a large demand for them. Only recently we .have resolved now, in the event of people desiring to purchase them, to give them the option of so doing and I am glad to be able to report Jro you that many of our lessors who had been using these machines for one or two years and who have therefore had every means of Judging of the utility of them have decided to purchase them and have so done. The object of this letter is to ask you to use all your influence at all events for some months to keep Mr. Moriarty's powers in force, as I can assure you /n the interests both of the Edison- Bell and in the interestb of t'he Edison United, that is a course which commends itself to my judgement and which is very much to be desired. . The Phonograph business which 1 believe should have been one of the finest in the world has been unfortunately ruined in many respects by strife and iaw suits .amongst people who . should have been acting together, and if any money is ever to be milled out of it for any one, .then I say all strife should cease and mx* we should wo'rk harmoniously together, there is yet time to recoup the losses made in the past and earn a substantial profit in the future, in t-v,* for the l9nEth of this and for troubling you the subject ’■ ^ ® SS ^ 6X0USS the str,onS feelings I had on X am, Dear sir, 4 Yours- faithfully ' /4-cv — ^ , {iZ'riefcf^'TZ f TJ~^y'f *. /LcA^O C^-^t l4htX^-4^ *"~ *" ' ‘ "” %*.C'&fckz$2 w 6* AM-* WA^n-i^^p c. . . . 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My own idea is, that before touching anything for the Continent, we ought to see what can be done in the home^as it * very often happens that if you attempt to do too much you do nothing at all and I should like to see one negotiation finished, before another is begun, having \ 1 am much disappointed at not kaxe heard something more about the Automatics and trust' you are not losing sight of this in the desire to promote the new idea. I cannot tell you how imprtant I tljink it is that we should get into the possession of sum funds from the Automatic, so as to enable us to deal in a more business like way, with the great interest under our charge. I am glad to say I am keeping much better and as a matter of fact, I have no reason to complain at all, SIGNED Yours of the 16th. inst. duly to hand and D I : T A ’? ED :oug:i t;;2 THROUGH EDISON -BELL PHONOGRAPH. Yours faithfully. yf^f - - yas’oh-iStfc,— q Edison United Phonograph Company, Q. H. Mori son, 2o od name of the Company is imperative. I have up t.o tfiis time preserved both its credit and its reputation which the action of one Seligman here might destroy, as they absolutely refused to advance the necessary amounts to keep the Company going, but rather than see your inis interests suffer, or be pre.judicied, I will mysl3f pay out of my own pocket such sums, and in your interest jr ese&e the Company intact until I hear from you. With kind regards, I remain. Yours faithfully. As your letter was only received to-day, and as the mail closes within an hour I dictated this letter to the phonograph s so rapidly that I beg you to excuse any repetition or mistakes, as I have no time for correction before the mail closes. ft. '£/• *. 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Thomas Alva Edison, Esq , Dear sir, I have been advised by my Solicitors before taking action of any kind that T sho/ld communicate direct with each Director of the Edison United Phonograph Comp any personally,' as, from evidence in my possession, I am convinced that the recent proceedings taken by the Secretary, presumably in name of the Poard, have been so taken without the knowledge of the members of the Board as a whole. It will be within your recollection that the contract entered into between the Edison United Phonograph Company and myself, dated the 16th day of May 1894, was for two years, and does non therefore expire until the 16th of May this year; judge thai of my surprise when I learned that telegrams had been dis¬ patched to the Bdison-Bell Company of London, and to the Reiman Phonograph Company of Cologne, intimating that my powers were at an end, and that communications should be made direct to Mew York. o 'yoCB t I need haidly point out to yote the very serious natun of such an act by an individual member of the board, even by the whole board. The responsibility then assumed would be very great, as the negotiations which I had in hand, and which were far advan¬ ced, were interrupted if not ruined. I have now been working faithfully arri. energetically for a large number of years, and was approaching the period when I hoped to be abje to repay to those who had invested in this busi¬ ness (along with myself) sone return for the capital they had put into it, and I now find that all my efforts are frustrated by one member of the board, at least -that is the impression whi 1 have formed from conmuni cat ions which I have received. The cause of this action is no doubt the simple one that it being quite impossible for me to continue to pay all the current expenses out of my pocket I was necessarily compelled, instead of remitt ing all the money through one channel, to retain a portion of it to liquidate a debt due to me by the Company, and which had been admitted by the Comp any as justly due to me. It is, and was, quite impossible forme to continue to pay all the current expenses out of my pocket, and I was well within my rights in retaining this portion of the pajment. I irrust therefore urge you to mset with all your other colleagues of the Board, and consider this matter carelUlly with a view to this fact, that in the first place certain sums are due T.A.K.'' 5. to me, and vri.ll require to be paid with interest, and secondly that the negotiations which would yive to the stockholders sane return have been interrupted and possibly extirely broken off, and the responsibility of this is not on my shoulders, but on the shoulders of those who have acted with or without the authority of t. he full, board. Yours faithfully, l/Afumt) Asy/owt'. firMuM ffimttai&i &»&**&* VM/M/i i? 'llJA/nvjvn/ S/i-srPin/ 3 BUILDING. Edison Phonograph Works, Orange, N. J. Dear Sirs:- l,_183 S*//<$L _ B.'ECEr^ ' \ - ' 1398 We are forwarding you to-day order No. 362 for Cylinder Machinery, and we accept the terms of payment named in your letter of March 18th, 1896. We will remit the first check, say One hundred and fifty Dollars ($150.) to-morrow, but would be obliged if you would kindly not delay the order, as the goods are wanted at once. We have heard something of your thinking of using an Aluminum kettle, in place of the old style, if there is any advan¬ tage in thiB, we should like to have the benefit of it. Enclosed please find a letter from Messrs J. & w. Seligman^ & Company, of even date herewith, guaranteeing the payments, of Order No. 362. Yours very truly, S' Z'/'/ s?' Z. tS' Secretary^- March. .30, 1896 . -y/(W. . ^ ^CEI VED Edison Phonograph Works, Orange, N. J. We hereby confirm Order No. 362, sent you by Mr. Morison, Secretary of the Edison United Phonograph Company, for the special machinery and apparatus required for the manufacture of wax cylinders for phonographs, and we hereby guarantee the payment to you for said goods as follows A first payment of one hundred and fifty dollars (§160), to be paid simultaneously with the placing of the order, with a further payment of one hundred and fifty dollars (§160) each week thereafter, for a period of sixty days from date of order, the bal¬ ance due to be paid upon the acceptance of the goods by our repre- Yours very ttruly, •J/t'HjwJ (fie/tnwt 7irJir/imA &. '77/.77imvM/t/ <§tfm7iny: Order Ho. 362. Edison Phonograph Works, Orange, N. J. Dear Sirs:- /h/J7 March_30.th ,—1896. trv£.tj Enclosed please find Order No: 362, for the following goods, which kindly ship in accordance with our instruction^ to be given you hereafter. Machinery and apparatus sufficient for producing a total of One thousand (1,000) cylinders or blanks per day, in accordance with your letter of March 18th, 1896, to wit:- 3 Special silver plated Copper Kettles having a capacity of 30 gallons each. 50 Special Cylinder Moulds complete. I Reaming Machine, for reaming inside of cylinders. 1 Special Machine for turning off ends of cylinders. 2 Special Machines, for turning the outside of cylinders. 24 Special Cutters, for above mentioned Machines. 6 Special Cutters, for machine for turning ends of cy¬ linders. 1 Special Gauge, for gauging inside diameter of cylinders 1 Special Snap Gauge, for gauging outside diameter of oy- lihders. [ENCLOSURE] 8. P. Moriarty with Edison United Phonograph Company, Allewanoe of $10.00 per day from March 26th, 1890 to October 31st, 1891. ’ ‘ 4 556 days at $io.oo--~--— --------- i-- - 5,560. J Allowanee as agreed with Ur. Jess* Seligman frbm September 25, 1893" to May 16, 1894. 253 days at $10.00- - - — — - - — z, 330. J As reported by Mr. Moriarty. 13,240. J Expenses and Disbursements from September 25th, 1891. 39760. \f Dosb paid him Sept, 25, 1893. 25000. 14,750. Expenses to Washington and Bridgeport. 118, Allowanee for expenses, railroad, and Steamship fares while absent in Europe from New York ae per centrist May 16th, 1894, to Maroh 9, 1896, 662 days at $20.00 - - - - - - i3) The" oompaty i>aid his steamship fare^eso. te London tftant "2nd, 1894. > ‘ on Cash Receipts from the Deutsche Edison Phenegraphen’ Ge sells shaft, under Contract October 30th. 1895, R.M. 100,000. at 24 ✓ $24,000. Bjf is 1,200. Machines and supplies sold ' v $10,668.61--- 6jr is 832.93— 2, 032.08 vf 58,030.98 Items due and credited te S.P. Moriarty as pef. Balance Sheet. V 3,924.65 / 4i.995.58 n Forward. amount chareod to his account 41,955.68 2,886.55 489.069.08 Referring to your Agreements of January 9th, and March 11th, 1896, with this Company, relating to manufacturing Rights in Germany, we beg to advise you, that we are in receipt of a letter from the Deutsche 'Edison Fhonographen Gesellschaf t^dated Maroh V 20th, which states "We must inform you that our Company is a pri¬ vate limited Company, and that we do not print and hand over ShareS You will therefore realize from this, that the German Company, does not issue Certificates of Stock, but that your inter¬ est in that Company is shown on their books, and we quote from their letter of March 30th, 1896, received yesterday, as followst- "We note contents of this contract, and have accordingly book- Eed the respective Gesellschafts-Antheile on the name of the "Edison Phonograph Works."" The above quotation refers to the Agreement of this Com¬ pany with your Works, relating to the transfer Of s to ok ^ Yours very truly, _ _ : _ , S&D~ '-^cT s£?£<£s>C~ "Jfa‘Z4*.’ViSt*0~ J .&idis -^)S*r~t^££- -*r^ ■'Tl^cS p£-£ «>^ \ / BPI machine , oNooiyvPH, London.” fabieon ’$amsjz (IS) ^xndljnmlrjerlanir afoirau, |®xmirxm, w. . o&cmjoCcyy^. sPuls). o^o-TKoCav\/ .... e^., . /A? .-.l.cT. .. /^/ .?. 4 4^»-«^xd . I ,/6g ,a.| j: j- <• cq/ I C^OTTX^doTT, . ,ioi y^ ^ . 4t«^vfAu . ,^o .*-// . S^STJL o y 4 t>/f*&Tru£s, Ja/p-Cst t%-ru*<-L/i.c*s>-i. c^Q oC&wotorw. . yo 6 The cash box could be ordered in wrought iron at the price of U. 10,30 and the broken glass we could order at If. each. But' the expenses to mount the machines, are also considerable# We believe that we will have two men for one slot machine to bring it in working order. We will give you a special information, about all these facts* as we wish to. be as conscientious as possible towards you, and not to claims anything what is not justified# We are very sorry that Mr. Henry Seligmann can not come to Cologne so that we would be. able to show him personally the facts of which we herewith inform you# ~V 4 New- York 18/7 96 Besides that we must pay all the different parts extra, we lose plenty of time just in this season for our machines, so that we are not &> le to make the pakings with the slot-machine, which we wishes to have, but about this point we do not like to speak more, although we could claims to a part of the loses wfcich we have througi our now not being able to make profits® As to the commercial machines, we are glad to inform you that they seems to be allright; only with different machines we have very much work, and our first ingeneer says that it takes perhaps one day to bring every machine in order, as it must be* Some parts of them, of which we write you a separate letter, dictated by our ingeneer, are not in good condi tion® Some srews break very easily, and some parts of the machine, are not of so good material, as in the machines *i ioh you have sent to England* But about these different questions we will write you a separate letter* ~We will close our long letter to-day and only wish you to be¬ lieve that we claime the differs nt patters not withb injustice and we hope that you may not one moment think, that we may wish to claime something what is not right® Yours truly: Ctbgiaptk JUbrm, “BE8TEQARNE." EDI80N-BELL PHONOGRAPH, 8 HANOVER STREET, (Slasgolu. ,a. , _ Ov”Vv^ — ., '^Vvvva/t1' ge'fc' ^'v° fVVv <*'W-^'"V- (2) <^"VX tnrt-<.A-) ~< - -J ^C><2U^ )6q. o^^uuu — . ^ ^vvi , €$-4-0 <^0~l/\ -^,!'^>vvew(/. ^cx^-3U^_<2^ «s»^' ^^,vvV Q *Ast3~yrA' "fii/V^i/ fS^*uob- ‘^1<2'VVW7VVV'~<^ tf-T*-^ (X*u. VvuSe, ^Vvv.-vi^i^' o) ^Ov-f^L ^T^vtfCeleer Mrs. Seligmann, ' We hope that you have happily arrived in London, and we hero- with beg to send you copy of o'u* conference, which wo have had to¬ gether in Paris. We will speak about all the throe different points in separate way: 1. Our difference with the Edison United Phonograph Company. We must mention again, that Mr. Theocb r Seligmann is not quite right if he believes that we have done anything to delay the payment, of the 200000 Marks. we may mention again that clause 6 of our contract reads as follows: "Within fourteen days from the signing of this Agreement, tho "Company must order fro> the vendors and they must supply "to it 1-50 complete phonographs, with case, og tho known pattern "or type, automatic, adapted for the insertion of a 10 Pfg. "coin, and 100 phonographs of the business pattern or type, "as substitute for a shorthand writer, for office purposes, "with tables and lids, per each of the 250 Phonographs a price "of § 80,- is agreed upon, including packing f.o.b. Now-York. "The Phonographs, which must be delivered f.o.b. New-York “within 00 days at latest from receipt of the order must be of "the best quality and highest workmanship and only the newest "and best apparatus existing at the time of the order shall be [ENCLOSURE] 8 London 6/8 96 "delivered, which shell be examined by t.ho Company inmodiate- "ly after their arrival in Germany." Now we again beg to mention, that w Company was formed beforo a German royal Notary on the 86th of Oktober, On the SOth I have been in London, and before an English royal Notary in the presence of Mr, Bristow our lawyer and of Mr, the lav'yer of Mr, Moriarty, and in the prosenfoMr. Alexander Smith the contract, was signed by Mr, Moriarty and mysolf. According to clause 6 of the contract our Gompany has sent then the complete order to Mr. Moriarty and in registered letter.^ y ^ ^ Our Company has paid to our banker in Bonn Mr, -Tonas Cahn the sun of 166000 and 100000 Marks has boon directly at the disposal of Mr. Moriarty in case he fid fill cwx clause 8 of our agreement. Clause 8 of our agreement, reads as follows! "As soon os transfers of the Patents, to be transferred to the “Company in accordance with § 1 made in conformity with ..ernr.n "law havo been delivered to the Company and as soon as a duly "certified declaration by Mr. iThornas Alva Edison and by the Edison - "English Phonograph Works has been placed in the hands of the "Company, showing that the right of the Company to the exclusive "working of the patents and inventions for ..erraany mentioned in "§ 1 and the manufacture of apparatus etc, with the use of "these patents and inventions, is acknowledged, binder renunci- "ation by the declarant of the right in question, the Vendors "shall receive M. 100000 in cash and a further sum of 11. 100000 "in an acceptance of the company becoming duo o.no year Inter." Now we asked always for the release! of yr. EQison and of the Edi¬ son Phonograph Works, but we ha,re not received. 'Vo havo received only a release with trend' t ions, , and those conditions give ns [ENCLOSURE] 3 Lon «ion 6/8 96 r**-' not according to our contract the exclusive working of the Patents and inventions i'or Germany. Furthornn Hr. Moriarty received no duly ai gnod power of attorney, accord-ins to the , .orman Patent-laws to he able to trans¬ fer all the 1!3 Patents to nur Company. At the request of Mr. liorier- ty and to show our good will, we have placed a chock of il. LOO000,- to tho hands o.f Mr. Bristow, o>ir London lawyer with thn oond tion that on receipt of the unconditional release of Edison, edn and the communication from the _er!in Patent agon, that tho Patents are now transferred to our c ompany he shall hand ovor' this check immediately. For this check we lost all interest since the beginning of November, as soon it was placed to Mr. Bristow. N w, gentleman, we believe, if you read ovor this fact again you must ;groe that it is not our fault, that we ha,f0 lost so plenty of time of our variable patents, and we fool very uneasy that your Mr. Henry Seligman was not so coulant, as we expected. We have not claimed the respective parts of the lose of our valuable patent- time which we ought to claims; we only state here the time ^for the patents for which we paid 534000 Marks in cash and in shares We have lost more than three months through yoiu and wo ought to be quite right to claime 3/34 th part of this sum, because we havo not been in the position to work the machine, and to begin tho bu¬ siness. If we do not claime this, we believe that we are quite entitled to claimo herewith uL.l the di fferent expenses which we have haa£ and we believe it is very honest of our Company if «ci claimed •only 4538 Marks as expenses which we have had through the three' months. We mention these expenses again as follows: [ENCLOSURE] 4 .London 6/8 96 3 months salary traveller K 450 M. .1350,- 8 months Salary mechanic " 840 " 480 , - half a month expanses of the a Exhibition in Berlin (40000 total) " 1666,- b " Budapest *85000 » " j " 1048 il. 4038, - !,!. 1,- a 84 (} - $ 1089,18 We have had also other expenses, and also loses, because machines which has boon sold in the bee inning of the yoar to be delivered in the month of Februjtry, and March have benn canceled. We lost also, the profit which we ought to have on these machines. We do not like to speak about all these profits, as wo said also about the loso of tho valuable time and of the 8 years running patent, but we herewith must clalmo again the 4538 Marks for Ahe 24 t{ each park is g 1089,-18. 2. The slot machines have not arrived in complete condition. Wo send you herewith copy of invoices which we paid for the tube, and for the cash box. We further beg to mention that wo have very much work with the maehino to be put in nrrior, because the small tube running from the india rubber tube to tho metal, tube outside of the box has to boon fixed also with holes into the cabi¬ net. Furtheron we have boon obliged to fix plates to the machine, 6 and 'vo will receive a special invoice about this. we hope howevor that v.e will agree with our claim of the expenses § 1013,52, and on this compromise way to bring the Difference out of the world. As to the commercial machine, they have not been all tostod then we find until to-day, that several nachin?8 are in some. parts not in good condition. Our first raechanifc Mr. Bettoher believes however, that with some labour and the change of some pieces ho will them bring all in Oder, and we will give, you a now report about this in the course of the next four weeks. Wo h ope that no considerable claims must be made from us for this commercial ma¬ chine. Finely wo mention again, we wish to bring this claim in order if yon credit us with the following items: 1. For expenses which Sox have had by delay of the machines § 1089,13 2. For the parts which we lmvo been obliged to buy ourselves here to co mplete the slot-machines " 1013,53 3. For 150 extra-expenses not to be sharg> d to ns each § 4,75 » 713,50 total $ 2815,14 '7111 you have the kindness to inform 'is as soon as you have seen the. Board of Directors of the Jtdi son 'United Company if you agree with our request, so that this different, may get out of tfts world. Our pBrnan Compmy. 'Ve also beg to repeate, that it is very difficult to intro¬ duce .in „ ei-many the commerce ini machine, because 'the machine are to dear for big business to be introduced in large quantities. We can ask quite well a price of 11 675,- or § 165,- for the first machine [ENCLOSURE] 7 T.on c%. •auciu-A. machine to copy the Phonogram, and .'.'or this machine ho will not pay ouch a high cum. Now we have the idea to make this second machine only for reproducing p’irposes, so that nobody can make records with thorn, and wo liko therefore to make a cheaper price. I hove been very gluft to bo Just informed before 7. left Mr. v,onry Soligmann that Mr. Theodor Seligman informed him, that the Edison United Phonograph Company is now quite disposed to ask only a li¬ cence of o !>,- f'.ir such reproducing machine. v.:o herewith ask you to send us an offici-’d letter about this fact.., ami w0 believe that you ".'ill not only facilitate us the affaire, but to make all our Company 5 times more valuable, because we will be in the posi¬ tion to make a very good sale now and at the same time, we -ill son nor bo able to pay an other time the 200000 Marks according to clause 2 of our contract, '"o will calculate that, in future for every recording and reproducing machine, we have to charge your account as license on account of the 2O0000 Marks paidt. with 100 ’-"ark each machine or $ 40,- but for every machine only for reproducing purposes wo have to credit you for § 5,-. Vfo believe in this case soon to be able to sell ab out ^SO recording and re¬ producing machines and about several thousand of reproducing machines so that the amount of 200000 Marks or 50000 § may soon be obtained. Also wo believe that our Company can make a big business with the musical boxes of which Mr. Theodor geligmann wrote in his lot tor. because we are in Germany/In rn*A*> owuAj »fc^ CUmJb^l, CnrUJL &-£, n-u) tZx^Ck a^. OVT “W "^U _- ~^Ayr>Jj JC^aAt <^AA~ KJ aV Qvy^> O-x/4 W>«n»v, "£* £y*-v"=f—» •w kw* — W <^ao iCv^u Kc v> (Sa^uU^C Ov«^^wt ^uvX^Y- c’C^ \ ^z5 ^ (w,Je» ^fe->ctwA« O^wrvc • <$* "fcatauJfr' «a>^ao^ gv~ ***“*' ^ e^ e>&&. -4) ^ ne^ ^ _ q *JlJidl~ Max, ^Swtloa*. _ Bi^2. go ft^w ^av~^ a5~^~* K«- ^cAXoav* VvvitLoO g° . ■ av, -&i^elU e.a^- #£»- n^AA^eCi^ce^XzJ^ *'-''■ — *&4fcs^wuc- a*+£*lX-± *t^c C^yXjL, (Lma^^^Kj irnrr- & 6^s. . ^»V\ <2^ - Ip^ia^uffwa *vg*g« /w^/v^ ^C_$7 $jS203/'=\^^ Deutsche Edison-Phonographen-Gesellschaft mil beschrllnkter Haltung. Cologne , August 12th, 189(5 0 Stephen Moriarty Esq, L 0 N"l) 0 N Deutsche Edison-Phonographen-Gesellsehaft mit beschrankter Hafbung. JP* Vill spoil our business. If you go to Amerika do your bBfltr tq>. prevent such exportation. You know that it is always very heavy to make suits against some persons who have nothing in their pocket. Have the kindness to show -a-lso this pricelist also Mr. Smttfc who wrote me that he will be to-morrow in London, to have a last conference about the world business before you leave for New York. In any way I believe we must take the matter immediately in hand because otherwise we will directly find more difficulties by the parties who show interest to buy the patents/—. Deutsche Edison-Phonographen-Gesellschaft init beschrttnktor Haftung. Cologne, August 22nd, 1896, Stephen Moriarty Esq, Hotel Waldorf N E W - Y 0 R k My dear Mr. Moriarty, Hoping that you arrived in first health in New-York I here¬ with have the pleasure to transmit you a copy of a new long letter which I adresBed to the Edison United Phonograph Company. As you so e by the Contents, our Company herewith appoint you after having Been c/A- parf.s more than 260 machines are tb be charged At Deutsche Edison-Phonographen-Gesellschaft mit beachrftnkter Haftung. Bogen und Datum:" cost-price to. us. We must be very oarefullj in every such points, and my Board of Directors would blame me in case I would not take the interest of our company in such a question. Have therefore the kindness, a3 you are a member of the Board of Directors to protect our interest. As to the general business I am very sorry to inform you, that it is very difficult to place directly all the 150 slot- machines' which we received from Amerika, as they make us more work qsr I expected. I expected that with 6-8 Shillings we could mount the machines but now we see that on some machines we m.Just work 2 and 3 days so that the expenses are very heavy, it is a p ity that the Edison Workd have not sent us the maohines co mplete. We must wait wait for everything. We have no cash, box then the tube, and all the respective material has mot been sent tb us. We also find, that it is very often the case, that the nickel- coin^ do not fall into the cash box. Therefore we have had already several times, the case that the maohines are running day and night until our inspector come to it. You may see directly which difficulties arrive and wo must mention that the machines are not in such a good state, as we must ask for the amount of $ 80, ,- About this question we will write furtheron after ihe maohines are a little longer in work. Hoping soon to receive from you good news, I am, my dear Mr. Moriarty P. S.Mr. Volkmann left last Tuesday with the German Lloyd Steemer j,ahh. I hope that he also arrives in best health. [ENCLOSURE] Cologne, A’lgnst 33nd, 1396. Edison Uni 'Joel Phonograph company Milln.Bui.Xd.inc lEW-yoRK hoar Sirs, Wo are in receipt of yoV favors of 8lBt .Tnly'of 4th, 5th & 6th of August, anti of you*- long cabol of to-days data. We bog to answer to the contents of those different favors as follows: --^k2f the ®9»»t repeat that the lode are not so strong as they have been with the first cabinet which we record -- i ' you could see it yourself, you Musical reproducing diaphagrams. We note contents of your communi c at ion, but what we like is to have Agak one of the musical diaphagrams which are menuf ac tured. Plenty of people who have bought from us the commercial machine like to have also the musik in their home or salon. These Gentlemen order then these of which we received about fiwo would like to know now if Mr. Edisoi have made an improvement therewith, and in this cns'TSitSft^o send us some samples one or two, so that we can make them also in Gor- muaiwal reproducing diaphagrams / london house. We [ENCLOSURE] 2 New- York 22/8 90 many. : Boat thanks for your offer of the material fo. r making cylin¬ ders, You quote us 24 <} and we sent you a wire to sena ns as quick as possible 1000 pounds. We gave order to our fr loads Mr. Volknnnn, Stollwevok & Oo. Worthstreet 5 to pay you about § 350,- against the Bill of lading of this shipment. Have the kindness to ship this quantity as quick as possible. Also have the kindness to tell us at which price the Phonogrtph works purchase tho different ingre¬ dients for making the wax as well aa tho price which they pay. new invention to copy the cylinders. Wo note by your favor of 6th of August, that this invention was made by a Oontloman in Bridgeport, and was transferred to the American Ornphophon Company. Of the other side we would like to hear from you what you think of this new invention and in case that you find that it is a good one to ask the American Oraphophon Company if they will give ns the license of this invention. Have the kindness to give y0ur attention to our interest. On the other side we bog to say, that wo hoard several times that Mr. Edison has made some progress in the proaoas to copy the records on Phonographic cylinders. have the kindness to give us some informal ions about this point. Please find also enclosed copy of the telegram which we sond you yesterday, and which we received from you. Wo thank you for your agreement to allow $ 250,- cu'l/of all the respoctivo differences. We may mention however that we oxpoot to have the .Tin full of which we spoke in our long letter to Mr. uenry Seligroahn. We have spoken about the same matter with our Board of Directors and also Mr. Stephan Moriarty, who is a member of our Roarctytold us that he must agree that we have quite the right to ask this allo¬ wance. We do not find it "oou.la.nt" that you do not directly agroo [ENCLOSURE] ! Wew-York 2 P/8 96 with our clairn. w,, herewith give full power of attorney to Mr. Stephen Moriarty ns a member ofi the Fouru of Mroctors of our con- — £ - against the Em of hurting of the shipped diaphngrams ancl wax cylinders. rn machines according to our contract., but on all other machines we ought to receive at cost-price plus freight •rave the kindness to discuss also this wi th Mr. Moriarty and we are in the meantime, dear Sirs Yours truly: P.S. We also beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor, of 11th August with copy of the letter from the Phonograph Works from tho 10th August. We may mention again, that also having opened all the [ENCLOSURE] 4 tfew-York 22/H 06 different cases we could not find the 3 no screws. Our first ntochnnik Eottchsr told us directly that he looked in every corner to find these screws. However he found with the plates P/)0 pins which could not be used to fix the plates *8 kkkxikk because the Phonograph Works has made holes into the iron with certain winding so that we must have the sewews which you have sent us -in the meantime. .. Have therefore the kindness to cancel the invoice'. VJte will find jotKfrxpsc however nevertheless in other cases v,i th phonograph slot machines which are not yet opened the screws, and then we v.'iil credit you ajain with the said amount. CO loans, August 33nd8 1H96. Bdi 8 on United Phonograph company vlQ ’iV'e in **«oiipt of your favor of 13th of August anil olno of yo’ir telegram of yestai-de ys date according to which you havo shipped to us the 40 spectacle arms, to ara sorry however that the; all are only 200 thread, and not 100 thread, Will you have the kindness to toll us at which price you could send us 2D points so that we can have them according to. our wish. Of course these points olight to b*J reduced from the prioo You are right that v v’o expect a shipment of ne u &SQ cylinders and / i week, and we will send you then the 6 barrels according Yours truly: SIGNED Jj'ild.. ir Stollwercfc I'S.J. Cologne. "y ~'e;~r Hr. Htollworek, it might be good. policy to d o ro, acceptance unless we wore .uito iy.(^-ifi»^^.v - ^^Ceo^C' -/CdjLS .-cadfcctA. zzf/iz.. „ ‘^/i^eT ct^vn 0 ZZ-'t>t- Zfi-'i *i _ _ . - - - - - - — ^ , ^Z&iZ %0t?t000 *<^lev±.ci^.: ^^-,-^.< _ -^•t' ^dccsie.- zztrZc^cJL _ £&& Deutsche Edison-Phonographen-Gesellschaft lmt bosclirilnktor iiaftung. Cologne, September 24th, 189? n Moriarty Esq, Walddorf Hotel NEW- Y 0 R K My dear Mr, Moriarty, I. thank you very much for your Jcind letter of 17th of this month, and I note with pleasure that your conferences with the Directors of the Edison United Phonograph Company have made progress, so that I will soon be able to receive new informations. The principle object of these lines is to inform you, that if you or the Directors of the Edison Phonograph company do not find their way to begin the business in Europe in a most energictvliy way; all the ground will be lost by imitators. I have received jtist by our General-Agent from paris two most important letters. You Will see by them that a big company will be formed on a phonograph which have been improved in Paris. Their machines ought to be very nice because I showed to our general -Agent, who has been here 4 weeks ago, all the progress which we made in Germany with the Phonograph. He writes to me, that that what he heard from. this new improved French Phonograph is good, and perhaps even a little better,. All the principal financiers are most interested in this improvement and they intent to form a big company. Of course I have written di¬ rectly a respective letter to Paris so to show them that the Edison United Phonograph Company wi 11 protect their patents. But I fear always that big suits may follow and that they take all the manoy which could be earned. The same will be perhaps in Germany. We havo now'five suits to fight and they cost us enormous • money. 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Dear Slr:- The parties interested in the International Graphophone Stock are unwilling to give an option on their holdings, hut would consider any proposition for the purchase of the sane, which you may Very truly yours, ■/tL>. Cologne. . * ’.'y Pour Hr. Ptollv.-erck, I am this morning in possession of your favor of the 31st. October last and take g ood note of contents. I have just received a Ion/; letter from 3 Sr. Moriarty in which hct tolls no that. he has not yet. quite concluded his negotiations for the acquisition of the Edison United Co, but has gone a lone way in that direction and he is quite confident of being able to complete then in a satisfactory manner. Ho writes me that owing to the legal expenses.- causes the dob’s of the Edison United Co are 'now about 200,000 dollars and he believes ’ that for other 50,000 dollars he could secure the shareholders in this company, so that in order to control the whole business wo should have to find 250,000 dollars or 50,000 sterling. Jf we could do this then v/e could control not only the benefit off all the contracts both with the English Edison-Bell Co and with tho Herman Phonograph Co but. all the rights for all the rest of the v/otld. Mr. Moriarty is vory anxious that, you should complete the negotiations for Aus train and ho wants you to sec whether it would ho possible or not to complete those negotiations so that you could obtain £20,000 from them in one payment ** ^ <^X£ ^ . also nnxl^ns, U>iit;.I . shoiild oornplete the French .^cciraat'- W (it m,b ssmo time, but I fear it will be impossible to afi, do that^ owing to the do lay of Mr. Iioriarty’s re turn, many of the people are holding back. V.'ill you write me per return of post or telegraph mo if you think at at all possible far- you to carry through iho •Austrian negotiations promptly, an if so it might also bo possible to carry through the French negotiations and then v;e could find the money for nearly the whole of the purchase of the Kelson United Co and, of course, wo would then control our own destiny. Of course, the cash to be paid to the KdisOh UnitertyCoiy~'r^ by the Krt is on-hell Co and the German Phonograph Co would more , than compensate for any difference i;i{ftt i|d^it.)ar.is^...botwe^ ’t|iie tfoSh to be paid now and the cash we have to receive l>orj iho French ' und Austrian negotiations, - l'‘ stvjstt wi« 0^6 J j sto-4L' i * '"*■ "ct '";X'L’ ^ 4 ^ t ._ A*_.~ tj*:-,.- It. 4..^, ./ -ti- _~i.it ' v'-i 4-jfe .,;. ~(i. I 44,^dz., .Ur .-> . f rt,. . ..£-.jtj ;.tfT~Ufc j ;7f At 4££ TfTn,^ M-LJzLL -HrJ I ^ .«*. -rxL:^ .y^4 ^ (ju^ '3-va- &tc>(£e~ t 7 f> Lu-' ( ' ■ .VI - - • -'Wvv e- V # CWV-v^ t ‘ l l <>u+ ^vw „£(L A v^ | AvX| ^ 0-*-t I^-Vk . ,Y St ici~t wC£ Tt'er ^ V/~ ij ~rf£ | ^ a-s ~t. X<— c: ._ . v-, . rv\ • tt'7 CloI. tA. c-t.— [ O^xA tyA-,4— j <1 .. . 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JLr&C’ -<4.^ zt&JL.-7t& ftlL^ '*£. Mr. nl- ice-"' 'Vt^ t ^1, 9-0 1, it Cl /ir(~ Irf r &V -Ust-,,.J. & -■ ll'Mt -, , £ ,/r. " _./- . a n^m.LvtAr^!M y^ ^='v'1 Z- F-^'CrC ftU PC oCx PClCll p'iCJcLf fT’ -H- GpsM, 11 l.^ Cce^ ■ouJtt, 'Tdi'd Mtki t l. it d-»-v^_ t-w ^-Vw6-Vi f'*1'— Pft e^jL~—r O^at^A-iae, t-e^L. y ^ ^|g ^tCc/CttAC.*^!; , O'* ^utvi ,fc < ^-7C$-J3tz-£r f ^rf:^- - Lj&flJtr. 7 aJ^C-, & <:K ;/ ; ' '\r~r- J 4.^. y ~fr*y - 9, r yc a.ra^zfr:' Jo ^lClaqU Jo ot*ju **- y{: ’)tc.4i- J MORNY- PA R IS ©iiiW. . .December 2«th. I89«. - 8. MORIA.RTY Esqre. Edison House Northumberland. Avenue LONDON B, 0, My daar friend, It is not Tory kind on your part not to have let me hear eftener from you. In reality X do not know where to write you at present so at random I am addressing it to Xiondon hoping, that you will have already returned from the UNITED STATES, I fear, that in Prance, it will be impossible for you to start the phonographic business, on aoeeunt of these existing here already. The Mennier and other persons,' who were disposed to follow Mr, BPHRUSSX in the formation of your business do net want to oooupy themselves with it at the aotual moment, beoause they would have to support numberlies law-suits with the great number of proprietors of phonographes already existing here. Further, for their personal use .these gentlemen oeuld prooure them for themselves very easily, X hope with you, that you have brought with you a new good and unknown business. My group is always ready te study every new buainese and to finish it in a short time if it is worth while. . 3J?; - £sia/nc// We are all in good health and the children often ask for you. h^L. «^-/C *. /L^c^y . My wife asks me to send you her very best regards and with best wishes of the season from all us, Yours sinoehly, (B jIfu m*«o no-iiilirio odi ban HHuod fioog «i Xla e-w ■ "•" •• ••' \- ; \ -' r- " -> "-r-'i -’v v'" ;•<.*. «IW»V •»»* fine pfreagB-r :taod X'sov wrt wx bnoa at «n zHbk o'tjttsr vM f8u ila «j.nl i, cr~ ,. ' PHONOGRAPH DICTATION. , ^ Jq.J\La^j fr. bumeuCtj &9f- 1 hM/fhl J 1) huAr h Mu. ' i : STATEMENT OP ASSETS. _Edison United Phonograph Company. Deutsche Edison Phonographen Ge sell scha ft. Note due January 23rd, 18! Rm. 100000. at 24 / 24000. less 25# due the Edison Phono¬ graph Works. ‘ 6000. Deutsche Edison Phonographen Gesell- sehaft, Open Account i John s. . Jones. • International Graphophone Company.- Thomas A.' Edison. Office Furniture. Tools for making Phonographs. Flint, Eddy & Company. Mr. Hargraves. New Die London Stock Account, "estimated* Stock at Orange Office for London. Account. 150.15.9 Furniture & Fittings. in London June 30th, 189 6. 1186. 19. 7,$.$' London Cash Account, Sundry deposits in Court* as Guarantee & Pay- 3400\ | S¥\ / J 6 3 L>\ Loo Z'j Oj L / os L / y\ 8^/3 JO Z68Cj\ . JjjL8\ 6-6' j JO 00 j c/6-J ¥3\ mentB unaudited 12547.12.8 j \o5\ S. F. Aoriarty, 11010.10.3 at $4,866 *V7 / f Balance as per London Reports to ' "July 3lst, 1896 10.0.6 j| /& TSdi'dp n ,B el 1 Phonog r a ph Corporation Lmtdj| London' Account 11317. ’i.Bj Iiess Credit. 1 652.17.8 1 L 664. 7.1 Petty Cash Balance New York. Edison Bell Phonograph Corporation, Ltd, 3000 Shares. of Capital. Sto ok. Deutsehe Edison Phonographen GesellschJft Rm. 250650 at 24/ 3M8 7*??° t Loo/z fOCj2,j\ 33yo\d/ J3300JJ / 8 -j acjcj 3 z, 1896. Phonograph - National Phonograph Company (D-96-24) This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to the business of the National Phonograph Co., which was organized in 1896. Included are letters concerning the assignment to the company of Edison’s claims against the North American Phonograph Co. There are also letters regarding Edison’s marketing strategies; his efforts to develop a cheaper phonograph; and the role of Maguire & Baucus as general sales agents for the phonograph. All the documents have been filmed. V oUaaJl Newark, Jany. 28th, 1896 To The Board of Directors of the National Phonograph Company, Gentlemen: I am the owner of allowed claims against the North, American Phonograph Company aggregating Five Hundred and Sixty Three Thousand Nine Hundred and Five Dollars and Ninety One Cents constituting about ninety five per cent of the total claims against that company allowed by its Receiver. The Receiver has on hand now about Thirty Thousand Dollars in cash and owns a number of Pho¬ nograph patents, and stock in other phonograph companies. I offer to sell and assign to you the said claims and all my right, title and interest therein^ for Ten Thousand Dollars; One Thousand Dol¬ lars in cash and the balance in full paid stock of your company. Yours trul^y CL, . till ? r\oKw HAYES & LAMBERT, T >\ J £-«u_ — W . 3^.....^. . ,89.6 ■ - - - - - »*_ - -r^W l/ /A - nWuP^r-o. c-e^ U«^>U-W- C Z^^T^y, >-«^ c~'-'-*> 6^W<_ ^ lr~ 6**. ivui^ss-, W^vvv^ v.-U-A He «x^. I^kM^ W 4U lA^w-C-j^ ^ W-'Vwv/ — f^Li/TiZ^y*-- . , /V|t . Thomas A. Edison, Orange , fa ffaxucccrJ-, * S^nwecawswu/' S/// 0fyt,fy fyfc'eefo ^orfiy. liar. 19th, 1896. Dear Sirj- We have enclosed to Mr .Gilmore today our check fur §1750. for the first 100 Phonographs that are to be gotten out flt the factory. We did not enter into the details concerning phonographs last night as you .vere busy .vith other mat ters , but Ve .vould like you to kno.v our understanding of the. relations that ekist between us in reference to the busi ness . It is, in effect, that .ve are to be your General Selling Agents for the United States outside of the territory of the He v. York Phonograph Company and the Ne.v England Phonograph Company, and: outside of Mr .Te.vks- bury; that .ve are to press the business .vith all possible vigor, and that all inquiries .vhich may come to the factory and to yourself from terri¬ tory outside of the.-Ne.vJ’York Phonograph Company and the Ne.v England Phonograph Company jvili be ‘turned over to us. This of course, refers to the United States alone. This arrangement to continue at your pleas¬ ure ., Yours very truly. j'l /.} f fc'o aac/jJ, M fyfcrea, (/. y^&^ar*2l8t»1!1^^ Subject _ Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N.J. Dear Sir:- A3 suggested by you in our conversation of yesterday, *e .vrito • you stating our understanding of the arrangement under .vhioh' ve .are to sell your phonographs. "' '" As ve understand the matter veare to be the General Selling Agents of yourself and the National Phonograph Company, “for the territory con¬ trolled by you, and ail Inquiries regarding phonographs .vhioh may coma to you or the National Phonograph Company direct, are to be turned over- to us. You reserving the right ' to sell phonographs to” 6. E. Tewksbury, the Nev York Phonograph Company and the Ne.v England Phonograph Company direct You are not to sell to other parties .vi't'hout' previously notifying us of the name of the party, number of machines and the prices' to be charged; the intention being to give us as nearly as you can, in vie* of your relations vith said Tewksbury and said No* York Phonograph Company and said Ns* England Phonograph Company, the handling of your phonographs. We on our part are to use our best efforts to extend the sale of machines throughput our territory, establishing agencies and do general advertising throughout the United States. This arrangement to continue until you notify us of your cancella¬ tion of the same. If this is the correct understanding of our arrange¬ ment, kindly write us at your convenience. . . Very truly yours. yours , yfeivcc > l 9fj *4- ^ .yy.u, 0 tU C^b efCU (V5t Ti^Le ‘'' aM'W'o •— 1 -* . ;; ,'ort. ^ k b. t nr fill‘ d* ■:'#fesefe *«te^ -« ^■/U XXCVC XU^A ' 3?:!Q^i j^:: ]Lims:'^ irt Svy^h^f \ ■ Ha r 6° 'Stfhieruxr/t* /*wt.t/' S$oretyti*s '/ir/rc/cniiC/, Ss// fyfo'ftfl//. i-^or/y. Mi Ve-tv' cJ'.O'J'A'y. March 21st ,1896. Thomas A. 'Edison, Esq., Orange, N. J. Dear Sir:- Wi 11 you kindly, either personally or through the National Phonograph'^ompany, as may be the proper channel, inform us the lowest •price at which you will supply us with Phonographs (Bijou type) in lots of 100, 500 and 1000. Also, Phonographs, (M.type) in similar lots. It is our intention to put both the machines in the hands of our agents in order to make it to their interest, as far as we can, to handle simply our goods. We the-efore, would like the the lowest prices on both style machines. We again call your attention to the importance of not giving Mr. Easton low prices on such phonographs as you may be under obligations to furnish him direct, as our endeavor will be- to cut into Mr, Easton's bus¬ iness as far as we can and bring him to a proper state of mind if possible, letting him see that he must meet competitors who are' thoroughly in ear¬ nest, and who are determined to cut into his territpny as far as pos¬ sible , even though we sell machines at a los3 . We consider, as we tola you yesterday, that it is to our interest, regardless of the cost to us, to drive the Grapho phone out of business and clear the field for the new machine. If, however, Mr .Easton is given the benefit of low prices, this will be wellnigh impossible, whereas, if -we are able to undersell him we can, with the advantage of the. new machine, make matters very interesting for him, and you can undoubtedly make better arrangements .vith him, if you deem it to your interest to compromise, after he has been taught a lesson by us than you could do at the present time when he is practically master of the field. You doubtless recognize as .ve do that the fact of the phonograph business being allowed to drift along without any serious attempt being made to make sales has enabled Mr. Easton to get a foot-hold on this ter¬ ritory which gives him a decided advantage., T/e will do everything in our power to counteract this and get control of the field ourselves and we simply ask you to assist us as far as you can in this endeavor. As you know, Mr .Maguire has known Mr. Easton for a number of years, and we are decidedly of the opinion that if a compromise is though to be advisable we can, under your direction, make a much .better compromise than you in all probability can make, and we would like very much to have you consider this matter and if you think it advisable consult with us before making any arrangements with Mr. Easton and see if we cannot make better terms than you have been able to do. Very truly yours, / ,-^S, Maguire & Baucus, Limited, 44 Pine St., N. Y., Dear Sir:- Tieferring further to your lot tore of Karch loth, ana Slat., I i7ouia say that it ia the intention of the National Phonograph Company not to retail Phonographs, hut sell them as*® through throe or four parties, havfe^he necessary capital and agency facilities. vie J^^ijelled ' , U, 'UW -UrC^JL « / -**1 1 -by-eontreyt to sell to tare- Unt-rapo 1 i t na^horogti^r'Tro7npauy--^rtd~the-NeT7-> --England Phonograph-Company. vie have made arrangements to sell to Mr. Tewksbury or his Company, and we will also sell to your firm. If your Company f and Mr. Tewksbury or his Company^ conduct the business of selling Phonographs in the United States and Canada to our satisfaction, we will aid you, an far as possible, referring any orders received direct by us to either, your Company or Mr. Tewksbury 1 s Company, so as to make an equi¬ table division, according to the total sales of either concern. I want it distinctly understood, however, that while it is our&w.av-l“\ intention to only to your Company and Hr . Tewksbury’s Company, and ^gffi-LthQ-other- twopjfbnpanies m^*OHe^abo»efi^ we do not bind ourselves in any way not to sell to others, as the situation regarding the patent question ‘ may so change that it will be to our interest and perhaps .to that of your Company also, to sell to others, but I repeat that it is not our intention as matters now stand to do so. Yours very truly, National Phonograph o'o., Orange, H* j. Gentlemen: Providing you will turn ovei? ’to me all profit ej aooruing to your Company after paying all legitimate expenses, i will agree to give you the benefit of lay experiments and any improvements that t may make in oonneotion with Phonographs and adjunct's thereto, up to kwh tiiue as you will be perfectly fitted out with proper Phonographs and adjuncts to enable you to do business, this arrangement to oontinue one year from February 10th, 1096, and thereafter it can be terminated by either party upon 30 days written notice. " This letter is written you to confirm the verbal understanding reached between the representatives of ypur Company and myself sometime ago. Yours very truly, [ATTACHMENT] Minutes of a special Meeting of the National Phonograph Company,* held at the v\day of_ t tAeir office in Orange , N. j . , on _ —Jh-hj . t&.jQii AW. /c L X . h Present, Messrs. V. S. Mallory, John P. Randolph and vr. E. Oilnore, the full Board of Directors. j4 . d L _ Mr. Mallory subigittod a letter from Mr. Edison, dated June 8th, reading as follows: “Providing you will turn over to me all profits accru¬ ing to your Company after paying all legitimate expenses, I will agree to give you the benefit of my experiments and any improvements that 1 may mahc in connection with Phono¬ graphs and adjunts thereto, up to ouch time as you will bo perfectly fitted out with proper Phonographs and adjunts to enable you to do business, this arrangement to continue one year from February 10th, 1096, and thereafter it oan be ter¬ minated by either party upon 30 days written notice. This letter is ’written you to confirm the verbal under¬ standing reached between the representatives of your company and myself sometime ago." in explanation of this Mr. Mallory stated to the Board that as the Company had no available funds whereby they could reimburse Hr. Edison for any expense that might be incurred by him towards improving the present Phonograph, and as it has been found imperative to get .up a cheaper type of machine than that now being produced, to offset the cheaper machines gotten out by our competitors, and as an inducement to Hr. Edison to give the company oorao of his valuable time and attention to this particular branch of the business, the members of your Eoard.'had conversations with Mr. Edison .with the result that he had submitted the above proposition. After due consideration it was considered wise by your Board to accept this proposition, and Mr. Edison was requested to put same in writing so that it could he properly acted upon. The conversations that have passed between Messrs. Edison, [ATTACHMENT] Mallory and Gilmore have been numerous, and date bade to early In February. After considerable disoussion, Mr. | Mallory submitted the following resolution, whioh, being duly ! seconded by Mr. Randolph, was unanimously carried: Resolved: That the proposition of Hr. Edison, as con- j tained in his letter dated June 8th, 1890, be and the same is I hereby accepted by this Company, to take effect from February ! 10th, 1896, and to,. continue for the period mentioned. There being no business before the Board the meeting j •was then adjourned. 1896. Phonograph - North American Phonograph Company (D-96-25) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the North American Phonograph Co., which went into receivership in 1894. Included are letters about the claims of Edison and others against the company and about arrangements to auction its assets. Among the correspondents is John R. Hardin, receiver of the company. All the documents have been filmed. /| ft) ft JOHN R. HARDIN, 761 BROAD STREET, Newark, N. J., January 20, 1896. By an ordor of tho Court of Chancery, made on tlio fifteenth day of January, 1890, in a canso wlioroin Walter Cutting, Executor, &c., et. al, are complainants, and tho North American Phonograph Company is defendant, it was among other things ordored that John R. Hardin, Rccoivor of tho North Amorican Phonograph Company, ndvortiso tho sale of tho entire assets of tho North American Phonograph Company (except tho claims against the Directors of said corporation for any broach of trust or duty), said salo to bo at public auction nt a convenient place within this State, to bo designated by said Receiver and to bo ndvortised by circulars addressed to tho various creditors and stockholders of tho North Amorican Phonograph Company and to such othor person or persons as in the judgment of said Receiver might best secure bidders at such sale, and in such other way as said Rccoivor might deem necessary, said sale to take place at a time not Inter thnn thirty days from tho dato of said ordor. And it was by said ordor further provided, that tho assets of the said North American Phonograph Company should bo sold by tho said Receiver in tho following manner : 1st. That tho stock of tho Edison Phonograph Company should bo put up separately and tho salo stayed nt tho highest bid without knocking down. 2nd. That tho remaining assets to bo sold should bo put up together and tho whole sold at once as a going- concern, tho sale to bo stayed nt the highest bid without knocking down. 3rd. That tho entire assets, inclusive of tho Edison Phonograph Company’s stock, should bo put up as n. whole together, and tho sale stayed at tho highest bid without knocking down. If tho aggregate of the highest first and second bids should bo higher than tho highest third bid, tho stoolc of the Edison Phonograph Company first offered should bo sold to tho highost bidder therefor, and tho remaining assets secondly offered should bo sold to the highest bidder therefor. If tho highest bid for tho entire assets, inclusive of tho Edison Phonograph Company’s stock, should bo higher thnn the aggregate of tho other two, tho entire assets, including all the Edison Phonograph Company’s Block, should bo sold to tho highest bidder therefor. ° And it was further by said ordor provided, that the foregoing directions as to tho manner of offering tho said property for sale should bo included in tho conditions of sale, and that tho conditions of salo should provide for the payment of such proportion of tho accepted bid in cash nt the time of tho sale ns the said Rccoivor might determine j tho balance, to bo pnid on tho delivery of the property unless tho successful bidder should bo n creditor, m which case lus prospective share of the assets on tho distribution thoreof, considering proved claims should, to its full amount, as estimated by the Receiver, at the option of said purchaser, stand ns security for such balance, and in that case tho title to the proporty sold should remain in the Rccoivor until final distribution should bo asked for, and tho purchaser’s dividend on such distribution, proper compensation by way of interest being mndo to creditors othor than said purchaser, should them bo credited on tho unpaid balance of the bid, any balance then remaining to bo paid in cash. Pursuant to tho directions of tho said order, tho subscriber, as Rocoivcrof tho North Ainorioau Phono¬ graph Company, will oxposo for sale at public auction at tho Edison Phonograph Works, Orange, Essex County, Now J orsoy, on Saturday, tho 8th day of February, 1800, at two o’clock in tho uftornoon of that day, tho nssots of tho said North American Phonograph Company not thorotoforo converted into cash by tho said Eecoivor in tho manner dircotud by said order, that is to say : Tho stock of tho Edison Phonograph Company will bo put up separately and tho salo stayed nt tho highest bid without knocking down. Tho stool: of tho Edison Phonograph Company consists of 1,200 shares of stock of tho par value of $100 each. Tho Edison Phonograph Company is tho owner by assignment or direct issue of nil tho Letters Pntont of tho United States and Canada, issued on inventions of Thomas A. Edison, for phonographs and appliances and supplies therefor on applications made prior to August 1st, 1888. Tho stock of tho Edison Phonograph Company was issnod to pnrohaso those patents and was issuod[ns full paid. II. Tho remaining nssots of tho North American Phonograph Company (exclusive of cash in the hands of tho Receiver and of claims against tho Directors of tho said corporation for any breach of trust or duty) will bo put up together, and the whole sold ns n going concern, tho salo to be stayed at the highest bid without knocking down. These remaining nssots may bo briofly described ns follows : a. A lnrgo stock of miscellaneous phonograph and graphophono machines, tables, cnbinots, parts and appliances, including obsolete and available material inventoried by tho North American Phonograph Company in tho year 1891 at upwards of $30,000. 1. All tho right, title and interest of tho North American Phonograph Company or its Receiver, of, in and to Letters Patent of tho United States and Canada for phonographs and graphophonos or appliances or improvements of oitlior or both, mid in any and all licenses granted under any such Letters Pntont to said Company or any one else for it. Said Letters Patent for phonographs or appliances or supplies thorofor cover tho patents and applications for patents on inventions of Thomas A. Edison under all applications liled since August 1st, 188S. The graphophono rights consist in whatever right, title and interest tho snid North Amorican Phonograph Com¬ pany may have under the licenses granted by the snid American Graphophono Company to Jesse H. Lippiueott, and by him transferred, ornttompted to bo transferred, to tho said North American Phonograph Company. o. All tho right title and interest of the North American Phonograph Company in tho Block of tho various local companies whothor now on doposit with the Control Trust Company of Now York or still retained by tho local companies or held in trnst for, tho said North American Phonograph Company. Said local companies are companies organized under agreements with tho North American Phonograph Company and are thirty-two • in number. Stock in all of them was hold by the North Amorican Phonograph Company. d. All tho accounts, notes and bills receivable of the North American Phonograph Ooinpnny, including all claims against local coinpanios, all installment contracts and mortgages belonging to tho said ''North American Phonograph Company. e. All tlio I'iglit, title mid interest of the North Amorican Phonograph Company of, in and to any phon¬ ographs or graphophonos situated anywhore within tho United States and Canada out on trial, loasoor conditional salo, or in any way belonging to or controlled by said Company. f. All tho good will of tho business of tho North Amorican Phonograph Company. ff. AH other property of tho North American Phonograph Company of whatsoovor character and whom¬ soever situated, excepting only cash in hands of said Receiver or accounts duo him and claims against tho Directors of said North American Phonograph Company for any broach of trust or duty. III. Tho ontiro nssets of tho North American Phonograph Company to bo sold inclusive of tho Edison Phono¬ graph Company’s stock, will bo pnt up us a whole together and offered as a going coucorn, and tho sale stayod at tho highest bid without knocking down. If tho aggregate of tho highest bid for tho property first offorod and tho highest bid for tho proporty sooondiy offered shall bo highor than tho highest bid for tho ontiro proporty thirdly offered, tiro Btook of tho Edison Phon¬ ograph Company first offered will bo sold to tho highest bidder thorefor, and tho remaining assets secondly offered will bo sold to tho highest biddor therefor. If the highest bid for tho entire nssets thirdly offered shall bo highor than tho aggregate of tho other two, tho entire nssets thirdly offered will bo sold to tho highest bidder therefor. Tho above property of tho North American Phonograph Company is to bo sold by tbo Rocoivor subject to all claims and litigations affecting tiio proporty to bo convoyed, and tho Rocoivor will not guarantee tho property so sold against patent or other litigation. Tho right, title and interest of tho North Amorican Phonograph Ooinpany and of its Receiver is all that tho Rocoivor undertakes to soli and nil that ho will expect to convoy, and tho purchaser buys at his own risk. The proporty described under paragraph “a” in tho foregoing statement of tho property secondly to bo offered for salo is located at tho Edison Phonograph Works, Orange, Essex County, Now Jersey, and may bo inspected there by bidders on application to Mr. W. E. Gilmore, Superintendent, during factory hours, at any time previous to tho time of said sale. Information about the matters referred to in tho remaining paragraphs may be iiad at tho offico of tho Receiver, Prudential Building, No. 701 Broad Street, Newark, Now Jersey, during oftico hours. The list of letters patent, book accounts oto., is too long to bo annexed to this advertisement, and while tho Receiver will do all in his power to aid biddors to an examination of tho property offorod for salo, ho cannot bo expected to furnish correspondents witii dotniled statements of the letters patent, book accounts, oto. Personal attention will be given to all reasonable requests mado by inquirers at his office during office hours. JOHN R. HARDIN, Receiver North American Phonograph Company. DYER & DRISCOLL. j ,, I. A ■■ V K W Th omps 'A. Edison, Esq., \ n/’\ '■ • Orange, 1 \... JJ N.J. 36 WALL STREET New York,... J.aauary....29., . 1896 . .. Defer Mr. Edison, - I encloso two papers, 1»- A reassignment from you to me of my claim against the N.A.P.Oo., which I hope to have made a preferred claim. You still will hold the larger claim of Dyer & Seely. 2,- An agreement between yourself and Nolan.. I want to get this agreement signed in order to get from Bush a simple straight. assignment of the bonds and claim to be filed with the Receiver. Kindly execute these papers and return them to me. Yours very truly. (Enclosures) /sf'C NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO., ORANGE, N. J. Thorns A. Edison, Esq. , Edison, H. J. Deo. 11, 1896. I have cone over the matter of claims allowed by John R. Hardin, Reoeiver, and haves got as close figures as I possibly oan of the amount of money that he will have left after paying all claims etc. I give you below about what this will figure out: Hardin now has in 3anh about $89,600.00 Against this he will have to pay lawyers bills $1,600.00 And he will get a further allowance for ser¬ vices of, say $3.000.00 4,500. 00 Which would leave for distribution, say $35,000.00 Total claims held by Thos. A. Edison 11 outside claims Cash in hands of John R. Hardin, say Balance due on Thos. A. Edison's bid $389,838.50 36.653.73 $416,483.33 $ 35,000.00 43,500.00 $ 67,500.00 Dividend will amount to .163 £ $ 4,318.00 30,683.00 Amount required to pay outside claims Amount required to pay Thos. A. Edison $ 35,000.00 NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO, ORANGE, N. J. T. A. E. Thos. A. Edison receives, say Bush ( with interest ) Martin Claim (3) Dec. 11/96. $ 90,000.00 §8,600.00 500.00 §9,000.00- 9,000.00 § 11,000.00 You will therefore see that the total that you will actually re¬ ceive net will he about §11,000.00. Of course, unless some settle¬ ment is made with the United Co. the distribution will be held up in¬ definitely. ?ha above figures are of course as nearly correct as I have been able to make them, but I think they will give you about the information that you desire. Yours very truly, 1896. Phonograph - Ott Manufacturing Company (D-96-26) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Ott Manufacturing Co., which was organized by Edison and others to facilitate the transfer of assets from the North American Phonograph Co. to the National Phonograph Co. Included are letters about the appointment of company officers and a copy of the company by-laws. Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine correspondence regarding incorporation matters; routine receipts for legal services; items that duplicate the information in selected material. Newark, New Jersey, March 19th. 96. Directors, Ott Manufacturing Company, Newark, New Jersey. Gentleinen:- I hereby tender my resignation as Secretary and Director of the Ott Manufacturing Company to take effect upon the adjournment of this meeting. Yours truly, I?7fc Newark, New Jersey, March 19th., 96. Directors, Ott Manufacturing Company, Newark, New Jersey. Gentlemen:- I hereby tender my resignation as Treasurer and Director of the Ott Manufacturing Company to take effect upon the adjournment of this meeting. i The Board of Directors of the |l Gentlemen: I am the owner of all the rights formerly be¬ ll lohgihg to the North American Phonograph Company under tn e ' I following contracts: j A contract bearipg date the first day of August, eighteen !; hundred and eighty eight, made between the North American !| Phonograph Company and Jesse H. Lippincott and Thomas A. Edi- | son, a contract bearing date the twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and eighty eight made between the North ;| American Phonograph Company and the New England Phonograph j| Company, a contract bearing date th® eighteenth day of Jam- ; ary eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and the New England Phonograph jj ComPany > a contract hearing! date the nineteenth day of Feb- i ruaiy eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North | American Phonograph Company and the New Jersey Phonograph I | Gompany* a contract bearirg date the thirteenth day of June i jj eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North Ameri jican Phonograph Company and the New Jersey Phonograph Compa¬ ny, a contract bearirg date th® fourteenth day of May eigh¬ teen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Corrpany and L. Halsey Williams, a contract bear¬ ing date the third day of September eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Compa- I ny and the ^a stern Pennsylvania Phonograph Company, a eon- j tract bearirg date the eleventh day of March eighteen handra. j and ninety one made between th© North' American Phonograph -1- ’ j I and ji CompanyAThe Louisiana Phonograph Company, a contract be'ar- i| ing date the thirtieth day of March eighteen hundred and jj ninety three made between the North American Phonograph Com¬ pany and The Louisiana Phonograph Company, Limited, a con- II tract bearing date th© first day of February, eighteen hun- jj dred and eighty nine made betweai the North American Phono- | graph Company and the Iowa Phonograph Company, a contract ji bearing date the thirteenth day of June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com- || pany and the Iowa Phonograph Company, a contract bearing date the twenty first day of January eighteen hundred and jj eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com- || pany and the Minnesota Phonograph Company, a contract bear- I ing date the thirteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and ji eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com- jj pany and the Minnesota Phonograph Company, a contract bear- j! irg date the fourth day of February eighteen hundred and jj eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Compa- |; ny and the Spokane Phonograph Company, a contract bearing jj date th© fifteenth day of July eighteen hundred and ninety made ^between the North American Phonograph Company and the Spokar e || Phonograph Company, a contract bearirg date the twentieth day of May eighteen hundred and ninety made between the Norih American Phonograph Company and th^4tate Phonograph Company of Illinois, a contract bearing date the twenty second day eighteen hundred and ninety of AugustAmade between the North American Phonograph Compary | and the State Phonograph Coup any of Illinois, a contract bearirg date the twenty seventh day of June eighteen hundred jj and eighty nine made betweai the North American Phonograph -2- & j; Company and the Wyoming Phonograph Company, a contract bear-' ;|ing date the nineteenth day of August eighteen hundred and | eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com- i papy and the Wyoming Phonograph Company, a contract bearing jj date the first day of October eighteen hundred and eighty (.nine made betweiai the North American Phonograph Company and j| the Central Nebraska Phonograph Company, a contract bearing jdate th© second day of December eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and the Central Nebraska Phonograph Company, x a contract bearing date the eighteenth day of Novanber eighteen hundred and l eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com¬ pany and the Old Dominion Phonograph Company, a contract bearing date the second day of December eighteen hundred ani eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Compa¬ ny and the Old Dominion Phonograph Company, a contract j;b earing date the nineteenth day of November eighteen hundred land eighty nine made betweien the North American Phonograph [Company and the Texas Phonograph Company, a contract bear- iirg date the second day of Decenber eighteen hundred and eighty nine made betweai the North American Phonograph Com¬ pany and th© Texas Phonograph Company, a contract bearirg .date the first day of October eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and the Nebraska Phonograph Company, a contract bearing date the thirty first day of December eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and the Nebraska Phonograph Company, a contract bearing date the eleventh day of February eighteen hundred and ninety made be¬ tween the North American Phonograph Company and the Chicago • Central Phonograph Company, a contract bearirg date the six- -3- teenth day of December eighteen hundred and ninety made be¬ tween the North American Phonograph Company and the Chicago j Central Phonograph Company, a contract bearing date the '{ seventh day of January eighteen hundred and eighty nine made ji between the North American Phonograph Company and the Pacific jj Phonograph Company, a contract boarirg date the thirteenth fi day og June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between : the North American Phonograph Company and the Pacific Phono¬ graph Company, a contract bearirg date th© ninth day of Jan- I; uar^eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North I American Phonograph Company and the Ohio Phonograph Company, j' a contract bearing date the thirteenth day of June eighteen II hundred and eighty nine made between the Norith American Pho- |i nograph Company and th© Ohio Phonograph Company, a contract bearirg date the first day of December eighteen hundred and | eighty eight made between the North American Phonograph Com- jipany and George I. Whitney, a contract bearirg date the jitwenty eighth day of October eighteen hundred and ninety made between the North American Phonograph Company ardt the West- lorn Pennsylvania Phonograph Company, a contract bearirg date jthe fifteenth day of January eighteen hundred and eighty nine imade between the North American Phonograph Company and Edward Id. Easton, )^a contract bearirg date the thirteenth day of I June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North j American Phonograph Company and the Columbia Phonograph Com¬ pany, a contract bearirg date the twenty sixth day of Janu¬ ary eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and John L. Marvin, a contract I bearirg date th© thirteenth day of June? .7 eighteen hundred a x . ?and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company ard the Florida Phonograph Company, a contract bear ping date the second day of March eighteen hundred and eighty nlne made between the North American Phonograph Company and William J. Warren, John C. Wood and Albert W. Clancy, a con¬ tract be aririg date the thirteenth day of June eighteen hun¬ dred and eighty nine made between the North American Phono¬ graph Company, and the Missouri Phonograph Company, a contract jbearing date the eleventh day of March eighteen hundred and jjeighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com¬ pany and John L. Inglis, a contract bearing date the twenty fifth day of June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made be- I Itween the North American Phonograph Company and the Georgia phonograph Company, a contract bearing date the fourth day jjof February eighteen hundred and eighty nine ijiade between the j: North American Phonograph Company and the West Coast Phono¬ graph Company, a contract bearing date the thirteenth day jj°f June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the forth American Phonograph Company ard the West Coast Phone- jgraph Company, a contract bearing date the first day of (April eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the Nor til j American Phonograph Company and the Alabama Phonograph Com¬ pany, a contract bearing date the thirteenth day of June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North Amer¬ ican Phonograph Company and the Alabama Phonograph Company, j ja contract bearirg date the fourth day of April eighteen huJ Ijdred and eighty nine made between the North American Phono- I graph Company and the Rollins Investment Company, a contract bearing date the thirteenth day of June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between th© North American Phonograph Com- pany and the Colorada and Utah Phonograph Company, a cbn Itract bearing date the eighteenth day of April eighteen -5- ® © ; q | jhundred and eighty nine made between the North American Pho¬ nograph Comapny and the South Dakota Phonograph Company, a ^contract bearing date the thirteenth day of June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Pho¬ nograph Company and the South Dakota Phonograph Company, a jicontract bearing date the eighteenth day of April eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the Nortljimerican Pho¬ nograph Company and the Kentucky Phonograph Company, a con- tract bearing date the third day of July eighteen hundred ?and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph !; Company and the Kentuoky Phonograph Company, a contract bearirg date the eighteenth day of June eighteen hundred and weighty ninebmade between the North American Phonograph Com- jjpany and the Tennessee Phonograph Company, a contract hear- jiing date the third day of July eighteen hundred and eighty | nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and the Tennessee Phonograph Company, a contract bearing date I the tenth day off May ei^iteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and the Mon¬ tana Phonograph Company, a contract bearirg date the thir¬ teenth day of June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made be¬ tween the North American Phonograph Company and the Montana bearing | Phonograph Company, a c ontractAdate the sixth day of Februay- ry eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and John P. Haines, a contract bearirg date the thirteenth day og June eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com¬ pany and the New York Phonograph Company, a ccntract bear¬ ing date the twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and -6- i! eighty eight made between the North American Phonograph Com-j | pany and the Metropolitan Phonqgraph Company, a contract I; bearing date the twenty third day of Jun© eighteen hundred i and ninety threeAbetween the North American Phonograph Com- || pary and thes Metropolitan Phonograph Company, a contract jj bearing date the tenth day of October eighteen hundred and j! eighty eight made between the North American Phonograph Com- I; pany and the Michigan Phonograph Company, a contract bear- — - dnynf Flight, fifln=him.- ;j contract bearing date the fifteenth day of Novanber eighteenl jj hundred and eighty eight made betweai the North American Pho| !j nograph Company and th e Kansas Phonograph Company, a eon- | tract bearing date the thirteenth day of June eighteen hun- | dred and eighty nine made between the North American Phono- !; graph Company and the Kansasr Phonograph Company,' a contract jj bearing date th© twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Compa¬ ny and the Wisconsin Phonograph Company, Company aid th83 Wisconsin- Phonogsaph=SompaBy, a contract bearing date tha tenth day of January eighteen hundred and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Com¬ pany and the Metropolitan Phonograph Company, a contract bearing date ths eighteenth day of January eighteen hundred d and eighty nine made between the North American Phonograph Company and the New England Phonograph Company, and all mon- -7- jj eys due and to grow due under the provisions of said contracts and all rights thereunder. j! 1 wil1 sel! assign them to your company for ten thou- sand dollars payable one thousand dollars in cash and nine and t fn each year. Special meetings ui shall ha called by ill e President at the inquest of tv/o direc- Di rec¬ tors tors and two days notice shall be given of the same. The Meet- irgs' meetings within this state shall be held at . ; the moetingn ouf.nida of tl-i t. 6hal3==be=ke4d=gb At meetirgs the order of business shall be 1. Roll call 2. Reading of minutes 3. Reports of standing coirmitteos 4. Report of special committees. 5. Unfinished business. 6. New business. 7. Adjournment. An annual meeting of stockholders for the election of di- Stock ■= erectors shall be held at on the first Monday in Hoi- a I dersUj^vw^-y^ of each year, at Wm> o'clock in the ojJt- ■£ noon, ingsand the polls shall remain open one hour. Notice of such meeting shall be given by the secretary by mailing a notice j to each stockholder at least five days before suoh meeting. 8. | The Treasurer shall give a bond to the company in tho-oum Treas¬ urers of /Wi. - anH 'ms with such sufficient sur- Bond ties as shall be approved by the Board of Directors. 9. The Board of Directors shall have the power to declare Divi- . , dends dividends out of the net profits of the company. _ J 10. Stock of the Company shall he transferred only on the Stock stock certificate hook of the Company and shall he signed hy icabes the President and Treasurer and the corporate seal shall he affixed thereto. 11. The seal of the Company shall hear the corporate name Seal of the Company with a suitable device and the words 'Incorpor¬ ated 1896'. 12. These By -Lays may he altered or amended hy a two thirds By- vote of those present at any regular or special meeting of Laws the Board of Directors. 1896. Telegraph - General (D-96-27) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the technical and commercial development of the telegraph. Included are letters pertaining to Edison’s and George Harrington’s lawsuit against Jay Gould and the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. There is also an item regarding the transfer of Edison’s rights to his facsimile telegraph to publisher William Randolph Hearst and a letter from Josiah C. Reiff discussing the death of Edison’s father, Samuel. All the documents have been filmed. r+ rf Y^Y^_ 'fcgzY ^2: ^y\A^ &YmsY ^y^Ln^x_^ *U^ ^'^t'U'L - ,'£w*. y/[ &*£& , »*. ^,07 - #X Lodge ? you jiAcux Jwft-Mjo yduL , /)cul ^(svutr (Tj aumIul j£aX dt( (/X Max. /iaX, n,u yC4 x /xa-xy- f 'Xu e./ CjXuhx A(uX ■ & At-terxci X) a Id M. Txu( jxbSJL cmx & /XxJ&Ad Xj al jinXct jj /Ur. 1 i a cLvxckajU) ACixA_ , /T/juu //Uj^^lusyu: /ay' X /kTvl ^ ^ -MO^ rsC / ' %< dJxX ////■ W 'Pj XAd^Mat^. '/'AajJu uffU/tj< 1 x O rf&njfd P/Jmjii' v , 5^') -O-o •{«"• rT) ' ^(Ccf a<^ci';,,- f(f^;;7we(r|*'- /,,; 7 trV_r tfl l VI ! VV £~ M-- jb CL/\y\ Oswyld 1 1 -<2 £te-(« ■ £ §:(!„, jcfr; ^4-P* •■' Ro C k S^xf a XTk 6 ft. ^ :(XA C-0. l \^0 sic , . . ’ •■ 1 . \ y? 4>.e* «■ R i' ' f-e _ ■ ’ . ptc.t?ftr- ■ '?K. (TO o.a vcty i ftr . C&utT JOHN II. WOOD ,onns, Real Estate and Insurant P&& r///um/t,w/. ■ {/■//■ if of. 23/96. Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Dear Sir:-- Wili you kindly favor us with a cneck in payment of our bin of May 1st, §30.00, for the inspection of your sprinkler system, and thereby oblige, Yours very truly, : ,J' -: . 7, (/nom? ■' tUcL Q'WL To cA'eisicpz.:. 77 JtccL ^lA/t 7 0 7 T'a'Vot-tU) oiaaJI; \ (y^L, /Or Jo. At, dkljA - : aJUJ fyAoJ^. t— - ' • i_! ^ J ^ ^X. y^O~-cr$7 : :. X <3 (Jo *~L C ‘ ^ ' .%. its? C.UL.v-.fvS*.. <2 Cf = ' , '--4 f/f2- £& tkc&te^TGVU* aamf«iV. ^ l' ^ X?'n- M ; xl U £'v"* . I LL; fi»^ <%. 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K1/ ^ £ (.4 lofic IO J* 6 c y n i c. «.' « t I K S' uJltihc v * \ . I C .Lb • / ocuu*. - y^ |,«0 ' v\“>K’{!vy pf^v.ev — r ^ ^ ■■• i M UVwW~«- f p - |-y A> f '/fwr ts*f) $ ^ £)i (nw- -.vep''"' P -. ^ , >,uJp~*cr rU° & t 7La.„.,.A : I *V ■ 1896. X-Rays (D-96-31) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the development of x-ray technology. Included are items about Edison’s experiments with x-ray equipment, the Crooke’s tube, and the fluoroscope; and documents regarding the use of x-rays in hardening aluminum. There are also letters about the medical applications of x-rays and inquiries concerning the commercial availability of x-ray equipment. Many of the letters are unsolicited inquiries that received a significant response from Edison. Over 90 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine letters regarding x-ray experiments; duplicate copies of selected items; documents that duplicate the information in selected material. Related items can be found in numerous folders throughout the 1896 Document File. See, particularly, D-96-04 (Edison, T.A. - Articles); D-96-05 (Edison, T.A. - Clubs and Societies); D-96-09 (Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence - Business); and D-96-18 (Motion Pictures - Maguire & Baucus). &.£ Jd^L- }°~ xy- ,6 ^ \ Ccn-vut cvrCrv els ^ 'o to • • 6 \ (T/vs-« vf* nAfl ,vwy£<^v *~e 1 IX-*- ©•'** 4..| _ ■ jet ,-cU Z- J ,.^ ^ ‘•~-k ~*‘X IT" - 1 . /^T' - . ,- . ^'"I VH-tf ‘W~j ■ V .. S-Zr-t-t^A^ Illinois Steel Cnmpimg, ' C^; A1 A aS Thomas A Edison Esq., Llewellyn Park, Orange, M J, Dear Sir,- Feb.4, 1896. Having been informed that you had made some experiments in photographing after the Rontgen process, 1 took the liberty this morning of asking you by telegraph for some information. 1 very much desire to secure, if possible, some photographs showing the outline of the bones of the extremities. There is no de^leirSdiwGh'i’ddgo'wii'o has any Crooke’s tubes, and 1 thought perhaps could refer me to some one having them. 1 know nothing o/\jie speeds’ WYc&pt 'ft/ftat 1 have seen in the public press and a^few.Bdferertcb'^ An' medical j'pufrnaAs ,, ,but the case in which 1 wish 'to /(i§e’,":Lt "is one of great importance to me. 1 trust you will pardon r Yours truly, foLdtC' I-' 'CM. THE WESTERM UlfflOM TELEGRAPH COMPANY. ^ f • irr all ™-e wORld. ■ HI 1 IM- 1 rHOS. T. ECKERT, Preslden | ’ P— To .„-. £jU+L (ru^^jA, _ i._ u^Ju St^j^JudS 'jSuvrC( 6" ■ l{- (L^p ^‘*i^ '?*^e-4L L*xj£ZZLeZT'-^L y j6'i*~^-£~^-ZUJ2> '-**r ^ Z5«y *-+*--^UL£ ■ /■%■■».-*- J*~'*v-GL . •«*>••' /fcM t'.-vv 174 Frank Id if Sc. , Buffalo , Kejb.lo/fC. C--AVH 'TA-* — ».. « &f* G*. (s%L.x^et. ■ 'YVcTK ./jp-'C^Ve-^-e1 4j k ^{v 1 take the liu.i&rty.H.o cubb'es^y 'ti 'regarding yivVj» iHscent expert tsT t^d^Vwv^v. . eAs, - imentB v/i th cathodal photography. I have wade something or a a curly of lo- r oatine Internal uy acoustic v3i.rai.3ons and am breast of the latest rll sooverles. It hat occurred •$# era tine oachorlal rays- might De passed through the stomaoh\ tuoe, In order to o aviate the equals shadow of the ribs and to enable one to locate tu¬ mors of the stomach _ if these prove to be sufficiently opaque to the rays _ 5 call scones I-fi. As a sort of guarantee of good faith, allow me to say that I am devoting my tine to digestive diseases and am associate editor of tie Philadelphia MEDIO AD AND SURGIOAr.. HE 1RTER , so that any references may be given that would ue required. I should ue glad to co-op crate ivfth you, your laboratory. : lies in > power, eithe i di St; Very truly you^s, 'gh & &vHu&t0u: 'Jf. r\ ' WASHINGTON, D. C. tf-te^JL.., E,„ , 1 8 o£ l;'" 'X M'/WjA'T’-o Xfrfyjd* \Ln . A. (ffLu^ ^ovii G>wi V~W- o-v-*' TV . J"- {^ Lx^vA' "A* Wt/^ ,/ ■2'JX <''J) aJUIil, €-«c Ajxa^uT CLo-e'kj >J> A aAkz co-^te JL U>e, rmji^tu^i kHu^yb QtyCXcukJl^ ALX (Vv\i^ CO-R^^X LvK> _ ^zJv A-^) cuw cc^voly 'VwcajcX 'Vuui.oIj.oC j l^l^ivA/vv^) r^(K^ ckJJ..' j^-(>il-i,lX^-— <> ar*,^ | £*- - E, K*yvv-v-v*iXc( . I feW §*>vt- v^T to ciAvct JCutr we ■&u£ Xui^v aijO/C-CcJi. (JS^As^hVj «u C4»vv ctvUi^v ciAu^t 0. 'wtu “yo-^ <**«*&&, otAu?C Ve>t^ <\/jKXi^4^ ft ftAt^ to ^vw€. ttov^- ^ W, c/uff-v vv tof cv/\^«avw^5 Cs ^ > 'H’ ''vo'rk&C <*u'v (j^t^ ^ ftlfc^rulv te>ww t^v l/^vv fcM^Uv c^t -W^ toTi/i A*vw^ fe ffpv (30-w m^^iAH^ \*c^ W^ \fccCfc^jrvv WL^ {J^t ^ cwl to XiUj ^ Ifce |ji^v 5 aJUXI U, fe aft" jja* fc; "fel^ - . - tn^umX w-utfc jLu^MJ t J i. , Tum, ww^ % $ [ENCLOSURE] Jl?e it will. In October 1894 my wife v|feh|k~v^W;N3 £r'iaBs''ah1f almost fatal accident in a folding r the "standard make upon us, and caught her in the act of lying down. She was doubled or so twisted as to remain unconscious for some hours, and wan delirous for several weeks. During the first six weeks her life was despaired of, but gradually she has recovered her general health, both mentally and physically, but she is paralyzed from the- abdomen down to the feet, and unable to move. Wo have had prominent physicians, and she has had 3 located at No. 96 N. 16th Street, East Orange, where the accident opened . I will be glad to call and explain more fully if you desire I am generally at home Saturday afternoons and Sundays. Ii you (Over) it) dr \ Or Cvcu,-^/ ^ QLnC • LjCr^ j>£/C£e-<» e^vCf" U.Uv. ^ OO^vJ^ivWj /*«**-. . ’-{-’ Irf Ro-^XV'^ e#pi*C*~~"-t * /Smx^vU^ j** ' 1 ! ^^vvJ^Lf w»k* ^-At Pioneer American Manufacture! Offi« of the tl.-r~; KEYSTONE DRY PLATE AND FILM JOHN CARBUTT. PROPRIETOR, WORKS, U'A YNF. JUNCTION. ?ia> P&i . Eebruax:y-..l&th, . 189 6 Thomas A. Edison Esq., Orange, N. J'. OttW Knowing' that you are making experiments in photographing with the Roentgen Rays, I desire to inform you that I: have suoceeded in preparing a Dry Plate specially sensitive to the X-Rays, which in conjunction with a special developer known as J. 0. Tabloids, greatly reduoes- the time of exp-' osure. I' have photographed the human hand in 20 minutes, showing distinot-1 ly the bones of the hand. At the Uniyersity yesterday, before Prof. Good-' speed, I' made two negatives, one in 30 minutes, the other in 21 minutes, a print from the 21 minute exposure I enclose, also a clipping from the Inq¬ uirer of this morning. L will send you one plate in box ready for exposure, and Tabloids to make four ounces of developer, first crush them and then diss¬ olve in four ounces of water, temperature not to be below 70 degrees. Exp-' ose the plate, one-half the time you have heretofore given. On outting the binding of the box, the plate will be found held in position by black bindr' ing paper, so to release the plate cut through the paper. I' should be pleased to hear the result of your trial-. Yours respeotfully, t \Xi.'//r'6ry? Simu/rut. ■/ yl/fui-zZ' C’~*v'V(X. i&. y/y%*,/tre,,i&„tufr< 2 T. . /dy.Jo , ^ (&v< Sa-C ; _ 5 ~~v 0^3$ °\ w A>'v . "tA^iv. cV\j-_y . \ VA-* ,C» 3C<^ >A, — cV>wC^y ^ J cJ~>A> ILdVvv^ , V^jv- l*-J<— CiJ^. W- ^c>-S-!LVw-vJLi> “T S A cvwiCJL , 'A/V^a.. 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TRas TOloobB 7 Q L - t v!)~ ^ Skvu^hcK. tt-ta.n ifc !^ I • ifx) , <£-c-t st-f4, a ^ (au 3r i«A4s{ Ax.-w'- i-4~ §- huIa, Laaa^C^ l^ i/vi/k} £A>L\svlaa/v'^L H ' ^h'^xji'C islslsx- 4 ~ ii) j ' ■ A, '' . <-x •'3-^^ .-/, •/*/ J.' -•--- I'U. >Ji {~ AT f «* i>;< #2- Thos. B. Rciison. after they are burnt with a view of detecting impart’ actions in the physical structure? The blocks will range from six to eighteen inches in thickness. Your reply to this inquiry will be thankfully received. Yours truly, V, P.4: Gen. 'Mgr. y : Ss/ffs'/r.j ^/. O' /yy/yy , “~ .w '//, ,, /. ty^y 'y /, -, , /. "^yyy/y. - OO/ ft /X.94, ClU^ i.c ..'v 4 0 *- f'i <-f- CLs* - s] * '■-• 'c c«_^ jydt* <- '<—4 - fay o_ tSljlA. Sk J~ ■>S. . . . . r ^nrz~-6-<~- [rr^^u. l"i u^^-Xr\r-, ^ <-<* , Jshz*\s~+— cr^y~ Jlc^^-<- faix^X^ ^v-^- Kc^y- q Cu. £ ^'-f(r^^ } ^ ^3 W^-a-A^- £4wi_, — > /"J L*~SK yy^CsL^. *- C-^-^ * cTj XX- o , 1^-f^j SX Scftr. ly\jLs*£-C~ , — C*stAo CT^ fa- ‘/<^T^i/V't_ - '\s-E*xz~. y~ Sl~i Y yl^-UL^C. Cnc~ iZo vu_ aMJnrv^^° Tcow^c lox«- ■v^vot.e^t. fco -6> S'jj- 'dLCe ~M& 1>t5 ^UAJ 1— - ^£m- '^JLe^Cc- ~zCi-€c^tA- crT- .— -— oww, ^ £4 -v^w tfV^_ JLCCcJ~~, (+4s CS1«_ - _J- >7 ct^_ *v CD/ ^ Gk*n^~ avoC<^<-tX/\s*~^ ' A; J £;u^/c' J*^-' w>^t ru^/ -y*- ^ /t^v ^/c^( T'UiW l.ioar Mr. •‘'disou: — .1 was a littie surprised to road in the jiaiinrs recently ‘that no our in this country has; produced Crooks tubes, and as there is to ho an exhi¬ bition at t' a Anericar. huseun ni' Natural History by the Scientific /.*• "> lance of tlov; ’(or); City about the latter part of this Month at which tun: now discoveries are to be exhibited, 1 propose at that time to «hov/ none fluoresboncn substances by myself ^ry the " X " or Catbodfir^vs, and 1 now write to ewpixr* if ynu have a tube that you have nado yourself, or nade by your order, that I can use on that occasion with the fluorescence body? I special iy want it so v-at I can add "Made by and through the courtesy of Thomas A. Wilson, iO:iq. , for this exhibition". If you are in Her; York at any tine I would bo p;iad to have you call on no at Tif¬ fany's. 9 Ro/mtvJ i rVw*e>{,c Very ‘•'ruly lours. THE PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. *sfcruary 17., ifcfcid. Kr. Thomas a.tclscc, Lear Sir, - 1 learn iror one 01 ino daily papers teat you are caking superior vacuus, tubes lor the production of the 1-rays and that you are ready to zuinisn teen to institutions xnat have tne facilities anti the nesire to investi¬ gate this r.sv; or peculiar lcrit c t radiation, i f that soatsc.ent is correct 1 ties 1-re to cake application lor a tube- lor ten use 01 .backer institute, i have made sons successful experinents ir. that direction, cut iir.d that the Crookes tubes ir, the possession of the institute are not well adapted ior that purpose. hill you kindly iniorc: ice .fhelher you can luruist me a tube ..and ii so., when and where I ear «»♦ it •> Yours very truly., ires 1 cent oi Lepartcsr.t ci hhysica, "rooklyn Institute oi arts and Ldr i^Z- *—/- ' S&Le. 1s X^Y~ \-XX^ , ’tXas/" ■Xu4cX^ .4 "X<- Mr. Thos. A. Edison, Menlo Park. Dear Sir:- It ha 8 occurred to me that; the cathode ray may be applied to the search light in such manner that a vessel may be located in a dense fog. If it will penetrate organic substance, it must certainly of applied in the proper manner be able to penetrate a fog or mist. this can be perfected, it will be of immeasurable value applied to naval ana military uses especially to the United States for harbor defense. I have witnesses to the originality of this idea. Yours truly, ' . , Ass' t Engineer. ;|L, ri Mo- ^ D o~c^ C- ..... . c (1 cx.^ fo-e t" * ("3 • . o 1VA ft LT^ ll* vjr. i v^ju, 3 omv wt^v ^4- X^X W^w<^yA^. ^ Ov UciKUb4^^ (^ M Vv^, i\w^ l^i2/J2^jtr_ 2»cnwYKU/w^^ - ^Kwlin Aj^i/kyw „ C..£. Cr> f f 5r '•• "• ««*"• {C— *Wi*wiS^ (]X ... . !■■■■ V ( {Ltf V* # tutCC / < J 1 huj cU^'hir . Uj™LF~tjU~ Hu~A ^ /fc=0 Ortusf- V fcuJr iLv — GM* 7 hh, 7JU rXX (ocu^ t^oUw- ^ «** w^TJ . «* u ft yu*. J 3- f~ lu- 7**^ ■tlAs^jivHsu Vw fours cruji. (Q^fiusr Xu>6^> O-Sj 1/ JlO^L tfic l-ffazf - /■ risLcJU--/'&*. O'^ua/b - Tjr-eUo^iA^ cu, c/ Ox^u.ek S"S060-* ^ «~y ^ yntob p Is* ej'ujj' C" \ U/ U. C< / • y L. ? Ucvvlvll WtwCcC- Un? df&itkavUUt SVoo.fe S£6fy.... /./.. _ f- *•* £i< ,yitUc.<~U.- y'r > ■-■ ' ■--.' /£ .-' ^ ySM'TZt ^■/br . J 7 < ) tU^yrl l P U/f l fi-t t. ',< (. /-& t > 'is-V-fLc/ttc. , yi -ts-eJ (l-ti-L. — .-Li,a_iS A/// C^< C*/ri~ /■ Hu^ c f ‘?> -tj/ (U r/ /t/L C-/lL ayU-lo. f'Ti t// IrtTls 7?£<- •—- i/l'^'* iTii' //( (. . Ir i i'/j' M.d. t. p (' / /, ,/s y L csots. Harry Harrison, | Rivets, Coal, _- _- 1' ? - - Inclri Screws, | iwwwwwwsS Harry Harrison, a native of « this city, is a curious individual. Since Ins early childhood he has eatet^hroken ghiss, carpet tacks diet has agreed with him very well. A short time ago Harry had the physicans remove from his system a paper of carpel tacks that had gone the wrong way, and now the young man has a new scheme for making money. He offers to let anv reputable surgeon lay him open for $500, but he stipulates that the money must be paid down in hard cash, in his hand before the operation takes place.— ) art tivemng Dispatch. A Curiosity at Drew’s Won¬ derland Museum is Harry Mar- The Boy Marvel, Halves end swal- j The Bou with the Steel-Clad Stomach. f - lowing ttie same § Ebc 36o\> who ipmjjles nil tbc doctors. - •-*- O / . W: rAf ...189-6 •• 1 fj%Xk£* (i'l I fo. yi y, ' , ... - f #.A . ^6 y/'~w 0 (f/- sKtf/i K^ctc/L 0a/> Ay/ c A A 1 A Piy6/U~ - ,■ /zA' *6 J ^-IC(A u. 1 i 'Mi son 'Mi son haboruto: Ornngf j/A*,- C-AO..W0.. -tririV 'lev; York, r'nh.^.'l, IftPij. !j) tr^sl '•■'• J Dear l«r. 'Mi.-, on:— Your favor of +,l .: kl.-.t inst rtuly received.. ] have none 'lianonds sealed in s tube. Y'hat J nnant. was, that it lie tried rith the light out- side of the tube; that is, have it fluoresce by the through any substance. If you are exper- e veiling I would be glad to cone for a few light pa; inenting hours, and bring GLrf.-'-'' dFf-Ydin*- Relieve r,ie, diamonds with 'tTTC^. Very Truly Yours, gbe mational lftropisioner. DIRECT0RV DEP,'R™“T' Z ~ v- ^•JC ©conn of tbc provision nub fibcat iFnbustrfcs of tbe HI. S. " "a'S's.. Script Ion, 93.00. Cbicooo. — wUort. B,lou„ Tl-lew Poc^-gflp. 26th, _ 189 .. 1M.HMCIH. pwiawiobu. Ocnctnl Offlcce: ©carl street. Corner of Wcchinnn. ttbc ■Mntlonj^jProoiBloncr Publishing Co.. Thomas Edison, Esq., ir ^ Dear Sir:- 1,0 ^'\ ' . ^ . . 1 r . . 0} ^ t vl efore pouring on developer. Ihb enclosed Sciagraph is from a plate exposed 30 minutes, one exp¬ osed 21 minutes was equally good. I shall be glad to have your report on these plates and films;- the latter you will readily see can be bent to a curved surface. ist Yours respectfully. (Lo pC ■W* O-o r j4- . - \U« O r ' . q j PHI1.ADEI.PHIA. PAv hu v w*. >. '•■ <7 £• ;).•& - _ >•» * <- •* -^wctif zaHa'trixxh, >v »'!^- [•+-**>. 'U- ^ - _, o' Y a *0 ^ ^,. % ^ c.’Lu+.k , J ' MX <^> C ’“' \i Gsv*^+ar H) , /co_^ ^ 1 K-i iOYY American Sports Publishing Co. .241 BROABWAY, . . New York. 1 l ■O-tJ'l'-" , , rr,. T'fcs •'1 - f rSn,rY f'-r-l ocu’tli Ora mge\ li. .Jk , 4- \ So in n oh has been written ana ■elation tc the Cathode nl\^A.of youjaf^laje in he' newspapers term information: to send a bicycle"'C& you and able to show in' the papers the figures taken by you, the idea being to bring out th^fact that the bicycle I am advertising is without a flaw, and also get from you a statement as to .iust what you have found in the make up of the Spalding Bicycle. It is an advertising scheme, Mr. fidison, and last night it suggested itself to me. I think 1 could make a hit. with such an advert¬ isement. It would bo the talk of the country. I know perfectly well that you would have no objection to helping one along in my line of business, and particularly when I could do something with the scheme. Bill y°o kindly let me know just how much you would charge for such an experiment and such a testimonial, and I will lay it before one of the manufacturers whose bicycle I am pushing. I might state, of course, that my idea is that we know that the bicycle is without a flaw. Vie know it is perfect. It has got to be. It is made right, and all it would require to make -it very binding would be an examination by you. I would consider it a favor if you will keep this scheme to your elf and treat it as ecnf idential until I am in a position to accept or reject your final proposition. Irus ting indeed that you will help me out on this scueme and that your price will not be too high, I £ Yours trulyj ^ I Philadelphia, '?/, 1 •f.'l rjv y(/. ,-£c/f 'C* /£ If akz&f' d/i }hc ^)'~ ^t ', ,/y /'VL ^l^-ZLs- .'ZsfsL-.‘%:-\ Kz-Ii/lu. H\^(" k« ^ t“ vum "JIvA l Cj^ Kr' p A p07 f, « C v H r) ^vaJ'L. a jblVw^Cv^ lv. a v £i c-r n cc. aw*. °p to rtfcr Ro e-Rl *j vW y <* ^ -jo c € C d l \A-flr ’p V -a 1 1 'A o C t-j Cl V\ V I j-VevvdUn i vCy |6 o ^ iyJ < r> r' < "' * cxr — f,L- -c i A*^cbu*> 5U. o "'?(? T€-c|'.-1 r>\ c^-4- THE DIRECT UNITED STATES CABLE COMPANY,™ '%o Head. Office, 50 Old Broad Street, London, England. PRINCIPAL OFFICES: - 7 1896 NEW TORE, 40 Broadway and 51 Now Street. “ 444 Broome Street. “ 21H Spruce Street. BOSTON, Old State House. “ General Post Office Building. , HALIFAX, Queen BuUdlngs, Hollis Street. 1 LONDON, 39 Mark Lane. LIVERPOOL, D 6 Exclinngo BuUdlngs. Tff A The following CABLEGRAM RECEIVED 1 •Via Direct Gable.” EDISON NY, THANKS FOR INTERESTING DISCOVERY HAVE INFORlvIED ELECTRICIAN NATURE ELECTRICAL REVIEW, KELVIN, OFFICE OF PR. OKAS. H. MERE. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Sir:- I hiavo not tho remotest idea that my letter will either reach yon or over have any attention. 1 am a Sandusky Physician - working my very brains out on X rays. Uy spark coil is only 1". I have five cells biohromati plunge battery 5X7 and I have a "Crooks" Tube made by a Cleveland Firm. All my exposures have proven Failures. Is ooil to small? Is my tube defective? I got only ribbons of light? I have worked for years in Electricity and allied stances as you will see. Uy X Ray work has been so discouraging as to make me feel that I am attempting more than I can do. I know I am asking a great deal more than would seem reasonable but I venture to ask some information from tho "Fountain Head”. I tried to meet you at your recent reception but could no do so. I trust that I may have just a few lines from you, or an assist¬ ant, pointing out my mistakes. I think that possibly you will do this much for one who has worked faithfully out fruitlessly. In aiding me you will also put the 7/oost or (Ohio) Univorsity in a position to accom¬ plish some work. Of course I road every word that comes from you. Thanking you in advance for the groat courtesy I know awaits ray request, I remain. C March 10th 1800. [ATTACHMENT] OFFICE OF DR. CIIAS. K. MERE. Sandusky, 0., March 19th, 1390. Thomas A. Edison, My Dear Sir: In order to establish my reason for writing you I would say that I am a nephew of Mrs. Ristine, who was the daughter of Mr. ft Mrs. Homer Pago. Possibly this may induce you to give me a few lines in return and aid me tn the work I am so anxiously following. I know I lack a large coil as mine in only 1 inch, and I am sure I need a heavier battery as well as a better tube. If you could only aid me in a small way, you do not know haw much you would be doing for me. I am working hourly and daily, as my means and time will allow, but my progress is slow. Vfere you to givo me a few lines and explain what size coil and tube I needed, you would do a favor to all of Erie Co. Please givo mo what aid you can and al¬ low mo (if no more) to add your signature to my Sons' Album for his future interest. Dr. \7. F. Bennett will be greatly indebted to you. He is Professor of Physics in Wooster (Ohio) University. You do not know how earnestly I beg a little aid and advice. (“ «... 7L. < (,'t § A, (. ', /v . ',,/„ ,U-9<. t // ■ L'/tCiM \j. tic/tir., . (V , ( -i^-^' f"' J ILo ft. (•. v./** /> tm ft, / /A<> f yetf //t i / t a c Aytuti- J.tt tii. 6. (• « A./> «X fi , /.W T //!:" ...,, O/i tciint.aJ dc /6i<'-.t.xjJt eJy'4 tt/ty a< + zCe.. f MITE® STATES iBHASIClH s 2V & 20 PJWE ST. M.Y. ^gidt^ttkk.tiSg11 ""-W Thomas A. Edison Orange N. J. Dear Sir, The papers of to day tell of your experim- -ents ill the X rays ,with oalcium tungstate . May I ask if the tungstate is of enough commercial value to ship from the State of Washington f.Am a resident of that State arid have an Uncle living A in Spokane ,who has a quarter interest in a large deposit of tungstate up in Stevens Co. Washington . The stuff is very beau- -tiful rangeihg in colors from wftW# white to black .could be used for inside decoration and in all places where onyx is used. Please let me hear from you ,and very much oblige, Yours respectfully. 'j THE PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. March 21,1896. Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange Dear Sir.,-' I am very desirous of trying one of your vacuum tubes for producing ;X-rays such as I saw described and illustrated in The New York Tribune this morning. You were kind enough to promise me one for trial as soon as you had decided upon the best form and degree of exhaustion. I judge from your report that you have decided those points. How soon may we have the pleasure of testing one? I have been using an 'absolute vacuum” ifctb with fair results, but I .Judge from reports of your work that you have something better. You are putting solentl flc men under great . obligations by your work in determining the beat tubes and the .best .methods for producing this myste¬ rious form of radiant. energy. 'Kindly let me know how soon you will be ready to deliver tubes, and I shall be. greatly obliged. DR. G. F. WASHBURNE, 197 EAST 47th ST.,, Chicago, . Mch,..23rd^....i89.6.. Thos. Edison, Esq., My dear Sir:- Your recent investigations with the "X" rays haBf claimed a good deal of my at¬ tention and admiration, and I am especially inter¬ ested from a physician's stand point. The enclosed article surpasses belief and I send it to you for a oandid opinion as to how much of it is true. If you would also be good enough to inform me what the prospect is for spending a few days with you in your laboratoryiai you would confer a great favor upon Yours most respectfully. TH" American Metallurgical Works, <:*".«Ai.n«mi“*MERwoRKs." Pkopkiktoks : I'. CRHJIER & CO., ^/isciiixve^e, ^P«vMaroh,, . tha 383d. 6. Mr . Thomas Nnison. Newark. N. J. Dear Sir:- Vlo learn from a newspaper remark that you have discolored in the Tungstate of Caloium the most sens itive material for the X-rays. Would you he kind enough to inform ud as to the requirements for such material regarding purity, form , grain &o., so that we might he able to prepare ourselves if a deman d for the material should arise. We would he happy if you should allow us to supply you with all the tungstate of calcium you should need for your investigations, and. thanking you beforehand for the trnuhle, we remain very truly ‘J— ; "fr cf^. ■»-♦>.— " fUjccv-S. <-jtr v (.VC'-v.-- J «-••*- <- /^o l^c -1 ^ kv V > cq1" h)Un:p- vhrncIn high soiooi., X ,r> 1 ^5*- a? .'d>^ !"■ iV“ e/A r3/.,Ml^J^UzJn~ /-<&' /bA. c ' / Auuo/ ^w, ^ V b^Ls-j ^v/vyi^cfe fcrp. 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Any information or help you can give us will be greatly appreciated. Thanking you in advance for trouble caused yo\j in replying to this letter, we are. Yours truly. T.H. McAllister Pic. C.W .McA . •—CONSULTING ENGINEER.— PASSAIC, N. J.,.. - '/'£*■ -VA.189^ V , A r ‘-"I f^v ffo 4-Uv.5/V.^^ <%ciCT.-^ ^ <£ ,*«. vcv.?.,r 4; T/£ V . >.(?■' oS ^ ,yfc /?'L» /'-ty /c .t St*S ^..^y X/tW. /£*. • - x ■ (/ 'Atic s-e* ‘‘Zli ‘ /*«£ ^atc- --w^T <~ y*is' . . u'i ,,!.S' r.y '2i »■*••> - UltlBIA COLLEGE. 1 ■' j „ ^UP , , ,y< N’-iii'N. frCZl-bCc. CjL''ds t.tU 1l-v () f 3 ^ ,■ kwi i.- r.;,v t c I „ \ i i\4V u>ai Se*t. £r_- /,,«„„ £-t} ‘-A; '4*rvvv -ac-<.^cr ^'y set „., ,^L v^h;& tiyii’. gM ui°^' ‘a; ^wv 'ac^u' •t'lUT a *>•■*•!) /Fuji. t. // . , OU-I /i«y i/" Ur A - «> 33, W -2£ /W/5^ C-yiyAy ^ ^ ^ !S ~ t£S£ r? “ 2^ £ /T~T 7,77“ '•”“' <33 -4 a. * «-w ^ . 1 *£Ftc rF'tfrt. 9n*Cs i*& i — ' f-*< - " X- ^ <»«• y^ X- Xl Steyr'S ,JL *Cyfa£ X'-'X^ T v£r-y /'~ '- *h?. cl/^ ^7/^y> ^ /S?s ~- ^ \ / y i **£ — yZIy^y? ■*■ /~ ^-syy y tZcr-y* yiy^ ^ ^ <^CT - ^ >W- - - ' ^ ^ ^K, 4:^ /rSlf ^ y / /7'^ '*-*' w X^X- STtLt ■* /^~c.—-*- ^ 1 4^ ^Cc/ c- y'-zX ^ 4Kr/ ^ s&y^tD /„s/Y ^ '^> /c*t<' I roc.eived your telegram this morning and have telephoned three or four glass manufacturers in Pittsburg, and find that the only way for you to get what you want is to have a glass drawer go to a window glass factory and draw out a few pieces of tubes from their mixture. The Phoenix Glass Co. of New Brighton, Beaver Co. Pa., make a great many tubes for electrical purposes, and I have telephoned them this afternoon and they stated that they would accommodate you if you woiild write them; so I have telegraphed you to write to them. I saw the New York World yesterday, giving a very good account — I should consider, of what you are doing, and I think you are in a fair way to great success. Yours truly. P. R. UPTON. 1 . bfczt •• . << ,,H; c> if,- Jpsfr 3 &■*.'■£ p ‘ ,-iL ; i J f ,t::r:C,.; o-/ < i ^ i - j v . . . J ^ “/ - J <- **->> ! If r ! X V^ev-M ^ fhr^xyGj-e^ I oL*-* 6 i-'tfc~ tfLn.st I_ |-. .JCt, 1 '* ^'~e6 j£'-t.**ZL+6, £»m ,r.£ Vr- V/- >Jz/jC,~ -T'di J2. y ^,. j£ '.sL£^/S/ *~*£ 'S ^,^. / ^•y*.OZ Ju£ ^y-Z^/L^yf ^j!t,■ *<. e. ti e *. I oftiftlA e M_/ Af /*/ i i-o a.^ 1/ jf (C-c J p f , 7 "■''•••'* • . ^ 6: _ e ^ /c t-CJ> C-c- e-C, £c f-u.c^ £ «r^.-s_( ^yi-j y~. Illinois Steel Company, J035 "THE ROOKERY,” CHICAGO. Thomas A Edison Esq., April 1 , 18%. Orange, N J. Dear Sir,- 1 received a letter from R H Day of Boone, Iowa, in vvhich lie states that he writes to me on your recommendation, for which allow me to thank you. 1 have not yet succeeded in obtaining a good picture through the human body, but have obtained some faint outlines. j-cc^utr ^ ^ ^ 'v \/VV,^VV. ^ S |S^4 DR. J. MOUNT BLEYER, L v-a^m tj&ZS A^-^ <=*7 &-e±^z s^SAr. *- jLJTa, - <4*4^ tf$~~)&ZQ tf U^-wg w^ ?d4~-*. stJZ^*-*&--^_ T ^-7- 2~ -4" 'f^/~" u^U 7W ruga^n^f hAe ^ ^ Oa utftfi (Xa fieJiafa jyrCidrtcAt adxra^m.^ *vug£.f ht ^ AcwAji >At inxOJAA^j bvdt>% ^rwWi n,v\n.rtc i\ Pi‘A aiu^-ma/ Kt.,5 (•//» () 4 ^ ia/wpJ M^JatwA'ioAA . 6ul»lrAM*&- . 3 ^rtiywAI ^ Ctrwuvae hkaA* ew-aiclud a«-9 YuaJ^M*o 0Vv jAio ficrvU h, An 'h lAr I't A* 0 (aClaa^j A; U- ^ . 3^ i^i.iu aaj ofatC -Hm /Wrlefd. f)MtohsviAAt J x.YUMk'd «A *W>W- ■unnAjd Iklu, 4v rroj^/AJ / ,- }•'! 1? <$ A <'<■<■'( fit. 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"J-ttU U«-, ^ Dear Sir : - {..v-iQ 'To C.(y,*~yc ■ tontjon hag Just heeJa cal I arl tea: ~. article on .anta ConsVitiiliorf of'^unfev-y^^eil "lflth/‘l896 .T hat^ya.i tr ^..x^.Vvb ^ - v //A . A *. faJx (9rA,frr. /**«&«"<* fa Se»tfJayu/'~ ■2.,-e <£, orrcvf^raj ,, JYc «f..7r f *& yi.,~'<<. '/vfitor t ^ ^ /„ yr» 'JtfM. *6 ^ ^ A- — ^ a «*4&y *r*~ S& 7* «#'*-. <*"‘f iljzzy ,:,^ 4— ^ ^ ^ <> * ^ ■/&, o Ci* rf*y lp*£s* Ci'u*° y~~ aJutA- ** i/tru" Jut... r"/ia> / / < /sf < y7l<5 \Jr ^^■^sAS\. " '“’C A\v\ lcf?' ^7lW A<-' 1RNELL UNIVERSITY, y wnonNDOiF- A . tous.fi a- tx>r->fei ^ ^C(L ^ M j/ .7 \v 0 CVJC \ ( fe*> — j^irs -^f (Q-ty-f-'C— ,-, — - ^ ‘"'^ -A— -^l^O . -'X - -v. °/7w- Jtj' sk-* jf> y - "ft--* — «-^/Q , — " — a-^-tJ-h—1 - - X^Xy W. J . 4- CA'iA^-^tJ- vvu* ^ux |kfi:l>44/£'dg, j^flVV^ HkXy( (^WVi k&dlyb$AMJ , $%• m j& U^,t&- ‘ Yoi-V^iui 18.96. Profesh'-r Thomas A. Edison*. » .'•• o? Uw*llyn» KarX,'- - °\ \ drango, i'J.J. Dear Processor ' was too buoy in getting a lecf lure ir. :hapd, and other matters to avail myself of your in¬ vitation to call at Orange a month ago in regard to some experiments with tlv.v “X" rays. While at the Electrical Exhibition the other evening it occurred to me, and I at the time mentioned the fact to Professor Steringer and your Mr. Ou that I thought it would be interesting if a set of experiments with the fluoroscope could be carried . . T-"' on witn the finest material in this country, and the re-' suits published. Would you be willing to send your assistants and participate yourself in the matter, in taking twenty or thirty, or more piiotogiiaphs of the finest gems that Tiffany & Company have and publish the results jointly? If so, I tnink it would be of considerable interest and the re¬ sults would go throughout the entire world. The reasons I wish, the experiments carried on at Tiffany's is that the value of the articles is such that they would not care to allow , V /th> 'trey c > them to leave their building; I refer to the "Tiffany Diamond" a ninety-thousand pearl nec lace, fine large sapphires, and other rare and beautiful pieces. I would suggest taking a group and making a scale somewhat on the line of Dr. Doelt^&4 of Gras, Austria. Therefore, if at the close of the exposition you would have your fluoroscope sent to Tiffany's sending your photographer, I will see that tSlr-^photographer will assist, and I believe that some classic experiments oould be carried on. I know that you are very much rushed, but as you are always ready to do anything out of the ordinary I take the T^®rt7(*?£ y°u 0n the subj®ct- fro K.lYr An early answer would greatly oblige, \’ f Very Truly Yours, [f I'P-'or 7H? fafR — ^_oY~ COO ,0 i \js. . OaJ^A^iaYYmY /^G .XcfcCL^ vU^W O^r-^/a^ ■ *Y - ^ • YaLa~A3-aa^ "TaJ i^y~y .^p/’^U-'&A— 1) — i/y* — Cl^' — ^ \^xbaAA-^ — e>L^ 0- — ^ - ^wt L- - ™»v //'/ WALTER C. WOODBURY. THE SCOVILL & ADAMS COMPANY OP NEW YORK, Publishers, 60 «t 62 EAST ELEVENTH STREET. Cr\ . ' N rrClo^ ^ ' pf'CVE- vcy^7c^ si '&Usu 4-*-0 CUi 7 itr'JjWr CUKiuAih%Af*l>*»*t'- huj . fcaJ^/uTlurrf' riLjryvMxiiiu r> (A» CUcjui n* th <^aX €^/UAC^ * T7\c hjLCts/l' fo~Ci r\udj^ ' jLO m*? A cliasC^ CLuu^iUtl^ * 6\a3 l>^tV - £W/» A<-3 p* y A4' ^ oLu&ustst <*«. /Ac dtCuwlAJ'aM.u\ tuv/fc Jlutu Xu*Sru*l<£«d y«<. ^ O^U/jJ — pluica/ *Jf n*~-P "" '*’ t^t^Ucc i . '7%?PP14Pi*s£ sCUh2££*&L- ^P/ /$£ ^pH^rth^^T-/ c^Pi^ l^y y (?J74j'(&&s'&/sd)-f /fai S- 7& jTppfci&f ^s^CKL d^fyippf £^zW<3£. ^ C2&/3*^<24*r ROBINSON CO. ELECTRICAL SPECIALTIES ^:Trhy“‘ zZ“~ i bU /-fi f Illuminated Signs X RAY STUDIO... APPARATUS ™=- +653 Main. 1407 Manhattan Bldg. 3.5 D.arborn St. M'3'M HuiminB' Chicago, . . 189 Mr. Thos. A. Edison, Llewellyn, N. J. Dear Sir: We have been making numerous experiments in X-Ray shadow- ographing etc. We have used a number of your tubes as well as other American manufactured .We have been buying a number of fluorescent screens or fluoroseopes from Ayleswort.h * Jackson and we are now trying to a complete line or a sample of each tube manufactured if possible, in the world. I think we know all American manufacturers and would be very much pleased if you would give vis the addresses of foreign manufacturers, bo both of Crookes tubes and Gtilsler tubes, and Ruhmkorff coils. We enclose stamp and will consider it a great favor for you to accommodate us thus far. Yours very truly. Vt if/VY/V-v l u 1 1 rl c ex (k. -v.-v ■ ROBINSON CO B u m r- ? J-c 'lx? p' "ZLc AA-. itr-r ur{ GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Kintlly drop me a note giving we tile above information, and I will see that the apparatus is made to suit your circuit. It may be necessary for us to send you one of our regular transform- rs to work with the high frequency set/. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY. I found that the 12" indue tanoe coil set is not so far along, but we hope to have one ready in the course of a week. These sets are wade to run from storage batteries, giving from 8 to 12 volts, although they can be operated on 110 volts continuous current circuit, througn the iredium of a motor generator. I saw one of the snialler sets running yesterday, giving a perfect torrent of 6" sparks, a good thick discharge, the current being supplied by four-cell^A small secondary battery. I have asked f.lr. Meadow croft to send you one of our nev/ Thomson Universal tubes, such as we use in connection with the high frequency apparatus, and which we think gives very fine results. I will be glad to have your opinion or criticism on this I send you, under another cover, a brief description of these high frequency sets, together with instructions for opera¬ tion, which Y/e are preparing to have printed. It will give us pleasure to send a man who is thoroughly acquainted with the apparatus tfi your Laboratory to assist in setting it up, if you so desire. /f-Cc^A^ri * — • ‘j [ATTACHMENT] DIRECTIONS POP. INSTALLING & OPERATING (JUENOY TRANSFORMER FORM R, CLASS g t UKNEBAI DEM R1PTION: THOMSON HIGH FRE- ROR X RAY WORK The Thomson X-Ray Transformer as seen on Photo. #25ol consists of 1) the following parts all contained in or ail own in centre df photo. Low Frequency transformer, Hicfoi frequency transformer Condenser , Spark cap , 2 discharge terminals, 2 discharge stands, Tray for hex to stand in. mahogany box 2) An adjustable regulator,- shown at the left. 3) An alt, right. air blast attachment,- seen at the 4) One tube stands,- in front. 5) “ Thomson Universal tube (held on stand) 6) " fluoroscope ,- not shown. SIFTING UP: Open lid of mahogany box, remove block which lies between condenser and hinji frequency transformer, ana lid. Fill the ap¬ paratus with Transil oil #3 (a 5 Cal. can of which is enclosed in shipment) to witiiin one inch of the lid, and the hard rubber sockets in which the discharge terminals fit are well covered. Be careful not to get any foreign matter into tiio oil. Screw down the lid. Insert spark gap and discharge terminals in their re- [ATTACHMENT] motive sockets, connect air blest to spark yap. Before starting motor, see that the air blast is properly lubricated. Anoil cup screwed toiront plate is provided for tliis purpose. Hake wire connection a as ho own on sketch 2210 , a] lowing for a max. of 10 amp. for 52 volts and 5 nmp. for 104 volt circuits. Th0 ‘’emulator has 9 stops, 4 of which are dead. The working stops «ro marked respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, in starting from the loft. The spark obtainable is smallest with switch on stop #1, and maximum with #5. Site a normal e.m.f. and normal tube, stop #2 will be found right. No. 5 should only be used in case of low lino voltage or in connection with a tube who hi^i. Place your switch for near regulator, and never aJ lo¬ ne ecled for work. se vacuum is very tailing apparatus conveniently he tube to ho uxeited unless it Sk. No. 2179 gives t..e interna] connections of the parts shown under 1, and Sketch 221(i shows the manner in which the Thomson X- rav transformer is to be connected, in connection with its auxil¬ iary apparatus to the supply. The transformer proper may bo used oj th-jr on 52 volts or 104 volt circuits. Lines marked in lull on connection board (Sk.2179) show the secondary connected in multi¬ ple for 52 volts. By removing the strips and placing them on top oi each other as shown in dotted lines, the apparatus is ao nnect- ed for 104 volts. Frequency may vary from 60 to 125 cycles, me rlt. cur. motor with air blast and regulator cannot he used [ATTACHMENT] -3- on any Other frequency oh voltage than tne one for which they were or* iginal ly ordered . OPKRATINO; Ihe discharge terminals allow the operator to form an opinion of the E.M.P. at. his disposal ancl indiructly of the degree of vacuum in his tube. If the two halls are set, at say, three inches apart, they will serve as a safety valve, allowing no greater e.m.f, to excite the tube than would jump the 3 inches of air. The discharge stands are connected vn tn the Thomson Uni¬ versal tube by two small copper wires about #28 A.G, (.013). Care should bo taken not to iiave the wire touch any part of the glass to prevent puncture; the uiscnnrge stands are kept about l/4 to l/2 apart from the discharge terminals interposing two air gaps between the tube nd the exciting source. By so doing, much of the unnecessary iieating of tube is avoid¬ ed. The spark in spark gap is adjusted by means of protruding rubber handle. The maximum sparking distance is one iiur.rt.er of an inch; the balls should never be permitted to short circuit. Start with a small spark and increase distance gradually but stop before spark becomes unsteady. The metal sockets of the spark gap must never be touched with tile hands when current is flowing through apparatus, as by so doing injurious shocks may be ob¬ tained. All metal parts connected therewith are carefully insu¬ lated. [ATTACHMENT] The Thomson Universal tuhe can he Hastened on the stand c-itner by pinching stem in cork lined damp (shown at the base) or by attaching tiie tube to the support provided with metal diaphragm by rubber bands (as suovm on photo.) The latter prevents any interi'er ence of rays from cathode cups ana gives a sharp well-defined shadow. The X-rays are produced at the platinum wedge g. (Sk. 2216) and in the position shown are best adapted for photographic work while for fluoroscopic work, the plat inum wedge should face August 18/96, V- fSo^. F'UsonJJecoratlvc aid Miniature < Lamp DepartmenL Harrison, N.J. / Thomas A. Edison, Esq,, Orange , K, J. Dear Sir: — In accordance with a request of Mr, Edward W. Rice, Third Vice president , I, take pleasure in sending you herewith one of the latest forms of the Thomson Universal double- focus tube with adjustable vacuum. Although it is probably superfluous, I send you copy of ' the directions- which we send out with these adjustable vacuum tubes. Yours very truly, ■ Secty. [ENCLOSURE] Edison ^Decorative and Miniature « Lamp Department. Harrison, N.J. ■■ DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE THOMSON UNIVERSAL TURK WITH ADJUSTABLE VACUUM. cStiof ^for°Lt"sen5usSeasrifeSrebfethe just as if there were no extension tubes affixed. increases s^tha^it^ecomes less f luJro-Mnt^aidHdoS^not®^0 °f ya2"um - ;,nrr^r^^ e.-WB&y mimmmsmim throw out tLlm grest a Jieat is applied, the chemical substance will Bsr “S„av??Lrn*s r «• «* »m “ssl arc after nf , * is reached, the kerosene lamp should be ret roved brilliant fluoroscent ai^earL'nce.^6 VQ™ tUbe wlU resume lts normal ssa “«S J2 S“»^rwM2r“ ■* [CA. OCTOBER 1896] OIRSOTIOIIC TOR INSTAbLIHO AMD OPERATING THOMSON IHDUCTORIUM Class K - Vorm 12, <■/:•! -RAf, nRCRITTIONi The Thor. *,n In.duoto ruim is an exciter of tho tjps - 'n i rally known as the Ruhmkorf 1‘ Coil with certain specific w difi cations in const suction* The high potential di.sohar.30s arc •J.V ' oht.iAiriod by a eisfc 0 and break of currant in primary, haring a c ci Vsnser con re eted in imltiplo with the breek cr. The f onetiun of both the condenser aid the water, breus ("■•lich are used in connection with the Thomson Indu oto Hum) is to a!»t'» a vc rg rapid interruption of the primary circuit, hence a Ion - spark is obtained oven with a moderate sized ooil. The set consist 3 of 1} Induction coil proper with spark terminals, 2 j nr condensers, 2 discharge stands,- the '."hole is contained in a mahogany box, filled with insulating oil and sets in a jepan tray. 12 gals. of Tran 3il oil #3, (Baked) 2) A 5 mi crof . condenser with ad(usr.able capacity, •j) A 6 volt electric motor with rheostat ml a contact breaker connected thereto by a belt. •1) A tub e stand for holding the angle focusing tube. 5) A single focusing tube G) A fUioroscopo. %7) 1 Ton-amp. S.P. Ratchet & 1 dble. "baby" switch (Cat. 71027) Photo. #8571 shows the ribas parts herewith enumerated. Tho outfit is boat mn either from primary or secondary batteries, which are provided by the purchaser to suit ilia own cony ■Silence. To obtain a' fall IK" spark , a bait ory of c\^- /ttc wIl c/L-e^ J.f ~ __ H ^ M1" ^ a-/^~) oJUc u^b^U- Wc- ^ iutrm -tfc. >tfct ■ 'ct dJUo "fcbct VC/ W- *yf-j^>t $Uwa- JZ^'x^CC. Vw- Ov^f JLUU'/''-C'C'^ y 'j'-'- G-tfjC<~~~- — liLo yrt-'' C'^ls/lK-' ' — ~” J*\A fur 'X/'^'tr JUJU VvO^Ub (Aa — joijLA-vC-' •We^Jo JL~ ' fiit \^JLy -'[} ^ ^ \v-f ,«-'' Xj(s. f cdl-w) (/J^C Jbi'isJ^hs' [ENCLOSURE] TQE' frttsuJs January 21st, 1897 My Dear Mr. Mallory : I have, your favor of the 20th Ins t. /regarding my note of $5,000., which falls due January 28th , As you state that you can have the note renewed, 1 think this would t than selling one of my noti the Street, and I therefore enclose a renewal note, dated January 27th, for $5,000. at four ninths, for whioh please send me Mr. Edison's note in exchange, aW re turn ray note maturing on the 28th inst. after you have take\it up. I will then return Mr. Edison's note for $5,000., ^e on the 28th, whioh 1 am holding Hoping that this arrangement of the mat ter will be entirely satisfactory,/! am \ W. S. Mallory, tex Co, , N. J, ** to accept this invitation, please signify the fact, it is our desire that on this occasion those who receive decrees may be personally present. Honorary degrees will be conferred upon a number of men distinguished in letters , law, and science. Ail these are expected to be present on the evening of ;:arch PA, in namegie rail, Pittsburgh. Should you accept, it will give ne pleasure to furnish you fuller information as to the programme to be followed on that occasion. In another envelope I have instructed my secretary to send you a brief preliminary announcement. On the last page you will note a rough outline of the different events which will take place during this celebration. With assurances of profound esteem, I am very respectfully yo nrs, , Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania. HOtb— Hnnlvcrenr?— 75tb. ILbe XlXHestevn ‘Q.mvevstt\> of Pennsylvania, 1787-ACADEMIC CHARTED. 18,9-UNIVERSITY CHARTER. 1822-UNIVERSITY FACULTY INSTALLED. Cbc Ztmiivcronts Committee. IbcnCiqunctcrs CnAM:i:i.i.nK \V. J. I lot. land. 1 1. Ii., Clinlniuui. Dkcartmknt in- Dental Medicine. PRELIA'IINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. On March 23d, 24th and 25t1», 1897, the Western University of Petuisylvatiia will celebrate a double anniversary— the noth since its lirst incorporation as an Academy, and the 75th since the installation of a faculty under its eulurged charter as a University. 1787. it Philadelphia, the Convention of States THE ACADEMY. historic Act for the government of the Northwest Territory; and the Pennsylvania Legislature, by the Aet of February 28, 1787, granted the lirst charter for an institution of learning within that same vast territory. It was the first, indeed, in the whole country west of the Appalachians, excepting only the University of Nashville, incorporated two years earlier. The Pittsburgh Academy, as it was first entitled, received from John Penn, Jr., and John Penn, the late Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, a square in the town newly laid out in what was then still Westmoreland County, am) also a grant from the Legislature of five thousand acres of unseated land. the successive principals were such men as James Mountain, Robert Patterson and Joseph Stockton, D. D. century, to a point where broader organization was needed. With the aid of men like William Wilkins, Walter Forward and Henry Baldwin, the Act of February 18, 1819, was passed, conferring full university- powers upon the institution under the title which it still hears. Collegiate work was begun May 10th, 1822, by the, formal installation of a faculty under the new charter. The day was made a civic holiday, and THE COLLEGE. t!,c mi,it!ir-v and joined in the academic procession to the historic First Presbyterian Church. The professors installed were Robert Bruce John Black, C. B. Maguire, Elliott P. Swift and Joseph McElroy— all clergymen, but of four different denominations, including the Rotuuu Catholic. What kind of men they were is best shown by those who graduated from under their instruction. Of these the oldest survivor is Hon. Daniel Agnew, LL. D., of the class of *25, long Chief Justice of Pennsylvania ; of his eight classmates three others became judges, University were destroyed by the Croat Fire of 1845, promptly rebuilt, and then burned down again in 1849. Instruction was then suspended until strength was recovered to build a third time iu 1855. In the new era which followed, under the Chancellorship of George Woods, LL. D., (1858-1880) scientific and engineering courses with distinct degrees were added. In 1867 the Allegheny Observatory was transferred Prof." Samuel P*. Laugley, now Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington*. The facilities for this brilliant activity were supplied chiefly through the munificence of the late William Thaw, who for many years led his fellow trustees iu the broader policies, and his fellow citizens in the increased 1822. 1897. Will, Ml the past live years, the |,a» branched out rapidly, TUP UNIVPPeiTv I University i„ fact 11 as in name. In 1892, the well- me UNIVERSITY. Western Pennsylvania Medical College (established 1880) became a added. ,800, the thr . g '£££££ ^ ^ L“"’ "•*«*-"* *“ Dental Department was opened with a lirs, year's Lneou”^.. 11 School of Mines'orrlnirllhl'e .Dr’ilrt,,r,,,t 'T l,““ 'rr“tly electrical branches added, and a for it can he . . he , , "°rk SOO,, “ U,c “"<»«”'>» of the State appropriation us TL hrm" "ork- Whh -t °f “rrc,us’ Kro">'":' i',u '''L'ster" er University at . ' #",,,b3r- teh» *«“■ *«» >0' Us THE “110-75” CELEBRATION. c c nit no .sesquipedalian term to lit the case, the numerals themselves m descriptive title for this double in mi versa ry. The celebration n following skeleton MARCH 23d. 2 P. M. Academic procession of the University undergraduates to the First Presbyterian Church, where the installation of 75 years ago took placet learning'. • Ca metric Music ddresses by Prof. Samuel P. Langley, WEDNESDAY. - . ' Pr“‘ Schools, with MARCH 24th. Governor of Peunsylva teachers and others, with addresses oil the 3 p' **• Dedication of the new hiiildings of the Mi historical a ... _ . . i celebration. Pittsburgh ; presentation ol delegates from other institutions o • Fantastic torchlight p Academies and Public Hastings, hh. 1).. followed, probably, by meeting for school Department, with appropriate exercises. f University umlergraduat le principal downtown ini of distinction THURSDAY “:JU I#* M* Alvin TI,oatrc ; Joi,,t Commencement of the Medical and ’ Dental Departments. Addresses bv John Crockar White D D mid MARCH 25th. Chancellor. ' 7 P. M. Phipps Building ; General Banquet of the University Trustees, Faculties. Undergraduates Alumni and distinguished Guests. students, "and now requisis 'uirougMhc'"^ ""u^t '.'n J”'** ‘° "C "y l,er lllmm,i =*'«' former Invitations wilt be extended to the President and IMugex.Presidmits o^mL^ZT^i other id,::":;:;: ami *° e,i"cator- °f ii- «“•*“-* - «- . ,T1;U i';7r C0,lefcriale uf ““,lc".ic costume has heen adopted by the University, and the Zlum! a°’ **Snm th,! rc',re’ctltatives of Colleges are requested to appear !„‘ academic Alumni and others desiring detailed information regarding the appropriate gowns and hoods for their respective degrees, or any other information about the celebration, hotels, railroad rates etc arc . . — March 1st. 18<>7. Ciiaki.ks W. Scoria, . Executive Secretary. 9A^,..9a fair-/ „r.,^ /Z ,/VZ . r- tn/t " "y ZZ.' nr/'/Z a. /Z ,/ ^ZZZ /Z ^jfyyu Z./Zv, *#7 J&//. iZrjrZ S"t ('sy6s.,‘'/ sffsi c/ , ^'sA/t. C'tyZ'e'zsjir^e. .Si'S S^SriA stS^'s/ /£><&.&? SZ-S-e,y ys^s /'^' «« A&* £& ^ > s*'f- Sit*, ' ^/'/>:?. . fi-r Ct-JcC , &LA^iSlr7C2 '~/Cb~* £f*r lfCCzt-&L ■ /"V^-OLe^ ^f-°—r — CCr. Jc ^<7 /5iL ^ 7%r^ ltvU^, cC-^al. aZo-C£^ Syf -tfCi: &?- *-CCc>i>ZL~ UZT'S^ (pe^U,/^ eS~7tez &^£cZs t*i~7 'J-Z? JCjU^ l* L*> ^^^3 /fcrc^^ «=— <4rz2z- >^3,*^ tr~ <^£ 2c^y~l2 Chicago Edison Company electric Lighting Supplies • tfLy /£cL, e£»£y ctuvj&s '*/ 6Lol*y *-r ' ^*^2 /Uk) i/g^£££ ^CT 2TL /, — *tr^T fej r^ ^r/ . ^ - - -^-.^ ^ZZaL ~‘4d>=^±- -~- ‘c^^-< 6-T^ f- ^ ^ dcZxr Xy^~ ^ s€t~*rz^*<& Chicago Edison Company electric lighting supplies Pa. 7-< o-jZ- C^o ?T^U b* Z&Z . 'T^'-yflCy. _ _ _ — - - ~~ ^ ' Chicago Edison Company electric lighting supplies hson Building, - - 139 Adams Stbee JZ* Xrer - SUSP er^ ./ iX QyrJl cj ( oL^y- A& (rVi^£-^AA^ ry^y-j pbwu^L J fO AA^A O'otr^ gt^,y^ K- A^A C>AAaj3 f3-&^js~v^_ O^AZb <^AAy~ ^ AAs Ug ^ /aj-xAA ■A.^A_s(Cx- ^T-CoA jvUslMsjtr CA'vCb M rt U 'jlALL^CxxJ- (YX^x^f &Y - Ol/L a-C.^. }‘(/Yv\- clu l AU^KA.do 76 iclutvx- , Qjjrwxx. \^t/VU^y^x (Tt/l^A (< [JULY 20, 1897] Youtb of the 19th received and contents WJted. jn reply, I beg to say that I find that the note for $$,^00, due July 23rd, la in the hands of the Ycrkvillo Ba*. i have tele¬ phoned to the President of the Bank and arranged the renewal wi th him, and some time tomorrow will esll at the Bank ant? complete the transaction. On account of Mr. Bergmann's abaero e, 1 m$r i^t >e nbl* to return the old note, whieh the Bank may wish to withhold on account of the fact that your present note will not ha Otu^rgwd by Mr. Bergmann himself. ThiB will, however, be a purely formal matter and no doubt satisfactory to yoU. 7/tM*** • ■ , ./ /*: Attorney. ' Yours truly, rl //r/’ / f/sv.uf'//, :///,r„rr„/X,r ■ : . '/},/■„ / <« . '/},/„,/ 4/r,r July 20, 1897. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange , II. J. Dear Sir: — V7e bog to enclose herewith copy of correspondence recently had with The Inventive Age Publishing Company and with Laird & Lee of Chicago, which explains itself. Should anything interesting or new develop in this con¬ nection, we will duly advise you. Yours truly. Encs. [ENCLOSURE] -S yr/’ / C/rtSf-v//, • ////vv/ryj ///. Srr/r. . 7/„,/„//y , . 4%,/r„/i» . St,/r„/ 7/,„- 7/, July 16, 1897 Messrs Laird la Leo. Publishers, Chicago, Ills. Gentlemen: — Our attention has beon called to a compilation published by you and entitled "Edison's jjandy Encyclopedia of General Information" etc. We find the advertisement of this compilation in "The Inventive Age" of June 1897, in which it is stated that the matter is"Oompiled by Thos. A. Edison." On obtaining a copy of the book, we find upon the title page the words "Compiled by Thomas F. Edison". We are unaware at this time of what connection, if any, you have with the advertisement of your publication, but we take the precaution, upon instructions of our client, Mr. Thomas A. Edison, of warning you against the use of his name in this connection. We suggest that you write us by return mail advising us as to what, if any, connectiin you have with the advertisement of the publication, and also, if the same is not controlled by you, who, if you know, is responsible for it. Yours truly, (Signed) DYER & DRISCOLL. [ENCLOSURE] ’yrK ///,„ ' r/r, j„V/' ■ ' 'A,/,,/; » Si, ^v-v^.July 16, 1897 The Inventive Age Publishing Co., 8th & H Sts. , Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: -- The 94th page of your issue for June 1897 con¬ tains an advertisement of "Edison's Handy Encyclopedia" etc., purporting to be "Compiled by Thos. A. Edison". We desire to notify you that the use of the name of Mr. Edison, our client, is unauthorized, and it is untrue that he has, or has ever had, any connection whatever with the compilation of the book. More than this, the title page of the book itself bears the inscrip¬ tion "Compiled By Thomas P. Edison." We assume that you have been misled into using the name "Thos. A. Edison" in ypur advertisements, and we therefore pro - pose, certainly for the present, to treat your use of the name as a simple mistake. On instructions from our client, how¬ ever, wo notify you to desist from further advertising the book as a compilation by Mr. Edison. Yours truly, (Signed) DYER & DRISCOLL. [ENCLOSURE] A -Journal of Manufacturing Industry. THE INVENTIVE AGE AND SCIENCE OP PROGRESS. COPY. Washington, D.C. July 17, 1897 Messrs Dyer & Driscoll, 31 Nassau st. , Hew York City. Gentlemen: — In re: ly to your favor of the 16tli inst. We pre¬ sume the use of the name "Thos. A. Edison" as compiler of "Edison’s Handy Encyclopedia" is a typographical mistake. We cannot find copy given printer sent us by the publisher — and this is the first time that our attention has been called to it. We suppos¬ ed that "Thos. A. Edison" was the compiler and had never looked at. the title page before to-day. We have sold quite a number of the books and it seems to be quite a popular volume but the fact that it is not compiled by "Thos. A. EdiBor." is news to us. We will see that the initial letter is changed to "P. " hereafter and we are also curious to ascertain if we were imposed on by the publishers furnishing us copy or whether it was a natural printer, s mistake — a case of the "intelligent compositor" who thought to do us a kindness by correcting a supposed error in copy. Respectfully, (Signed) M. H. JEWELL. [ENCLOSURE] LAIRD & LEE, Publishers. 263-265 Wabash Ave. Chicago, July 19, 1897. Messrs Dyer & Driscoll, 31 Nassau St., New York, N.Y. Gentlemen; — We are in receipt of your esteemed favor of the 16th in reference to the advertisement in the Inventive Age. Would say that we had nothing whatever to do with the same. On or about sept. 12th, *96, the above paper wrote us injregard to hand¬ ling our publication as premiums, including the book in question. After deciding upon the prices, terms, etc., they made up their own ad. regarding the books, and not until receiving your letter, this morning, did we have any knowledge of Thos . A. Edison's name being used in connection with Edison's Encyclopedia. We are quite sure it was an error on their part. Thanking you for calling our attention to the matter, we beg to remain. Yours very respectfully, (Signed) LAIRD & LEE. Dio. by W. H. L. Orange, N. J. Deer Sir ; in reply to yours of the 17th inat., addressed to M1’. Bergman n, inquiring about busts of yourself, 1 beg to state. Tha1 e is one such bust in this office, which is Mr. Borg- mann's property. Of course 1 do not know, but i believe if he '•are here, that he would send it to you at once, as 1 am under the impression that he has one at his house also. As you jjrobably know, they used to be made at 17th St, & Avenue B. 1 have inquired of the Oxley & Enos Co., the present successors of the General Electric Co. at that place and they tell me that they no longer have the facilities for making them and have not the patterns. ’fhey state, however, that they have one bust on hand, for which they would refuse no r easonable offer, and further state that they believe they have- parts sufficient fv another bu3t. The price of the bust at the time the old Company v;a3 making them was, 1 believe, $80.00. Mr. JStUaonS If you want the buat we have here immediately x will ship it to you, or if you prefer that 1 should write to Mr» fierg- mann about i I. first, 1 will do a.o - whichever you like. Awaiting your reply, i am Vours truly, Prom the English newspapers I regret to find that you are suffering from x-ray , or , as I prefer to call it , 11 focus- tube" traumatism , & that the slight has been thereby affected ,( presumably in its power. of accomo¬ dation y . • Your case, assuming it to be as above reported , is Of interest to me personally , as I have recently collected « published a set of cases of deep traumatism by the focus- tube , that is , apart from surface damage to the skin . Herewith I send you a copy of a short article on the .subj-ec.t copied from the British Hedicfl.1 .Journal for July SIst, 1897 . You will see that two cases are there mentioned in which individuals who had been for a long time Insusceptible to the rays became susceptible , that is , . they were airtac3;ed by dermatitis . In their case , the only altesfdd conditio^ of the damaging exposure so far as^ould bo ascertained , consisted in' li'oating the cathode end of the tube . I should much li3:o to 3:now if anything of the 3:ind induced or accompanied the onset of susceptibility in your case . I.y own idea is that the damaging factor which may or may not bo x-rays , comes from the tube & has great power of penetration-; that it may bo the saaje agency that heats the platinum anode or anti-cathode ; te that it may. be possibly ^pr e s erit^ls.o in sunlight . iioweve? any ideas of an electrical nature are with me purely sp eculative__jJ_\s a sldn specialist the focus -tube demage to the^bofdy^has naturally had the great es/' interest to me . Pray accept ny apologies for. intruding these few remarks, & believe me to remain, dear Sir , yours faithfully - - "TTjzET 2>^ok 4c.s.7^. [ENCLOSURE] Crf^ yUs fa A ^ ^ S/'^^3 Do ei)/ Tissue Traumatism fron Rente on Ray Exposure. Ey David Walsh , I.I.D. Eclin . Physician Western Skin Hospital , Eondon W. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooocooooo Many instances have now been recorded of injury to the superficial structures of he human body , such as the skin , hair , & conjunctivae , by the process of skia¬ graphy . It has boon generally assumed , however , that no. ham has boon done to the deeper structures by the passage through the bodyof rays fron the focus tube- . So far from that view repr^&ting the exact state of affairs , it seems to the present writer that the method of Rhntgen ray diagnosis may exert a definite harmful action upon some of the deeper tissues of the human body . The facts that have suggested that opinion nay be gathered from the following _ briefly noted cases ; Mcc'/G Professor Waynouth r.oid / , of Dundee , experienced 9 &<£***< severe dermatitis C-. loss of hair after four exposures , ftC, (fah from twenty to forty minutes each, within a period of four _ J. — • days . The focus tube was placed over the front of the body , A on tho evening of each exposure marked erythema of the chest & belly was noticed , as well as slight redness of the back . This interesting obsersation seems to point to a kind of selective traumatism of tho deeper epidermis Ci dermis by rays capable of pas sin."; through the substance of -/he body . The only recorded instance , so far as the writer knows , of apparent injury to deep structures by the " . Rtintgcn methods is one given by an American surgeon, Mr. TLJtiu* t Gilchrist ?• It was that of a demonstrator, aged 32 years, affected trjs. severe dermatitis after frequent & prolonged la.jt. t-eb.BqJ. ex.posures . At the same time the bones of the hand become - tender on pressure. A skiagram showdd the presence of a distinct osteoplastic periostitis , St probably an osteitis , of the first C-. second phalanges of the index A second fingers , St also of the heads of the corresponding meta¬ carpal bones . A remarkable instance of apparent injury to brain structures by the, rays of the focus tube has come Under the notice of the present writer . The sufferer , a man 49 years of ago , had demonstrated tho rays for some months , A had suffered from several slight attacks of dermati ti s . At length he experienced a severe illness after a week’ s prolonged demonstration , during whion^the tube was cnstantly near his head , although separated by a wooden screen . main foatues of his attack were giddiness , A slight headache , vomiting. , diarrhoea , high temperature . % prostration . He was under the care of Dr. Murray ,. of Clacton-upon^Sea , who has kindly furnished the following v note . Wien the patient came under observation, his temp era twex- was 103“ 5F, pupils sluggish' frequent diarrhoea A [ENCLOSURE] vomiting , great languor A debility . rfr, LSurray recarded the attaok as im someway due to nontgen ray exposure , & compared it at the time with the symptoms of 11 sunstroke" . The giddiness persisted for a couple: of months . On the-:.. whole the facts og this illness appear to be consistent with a theory of gastric & cerebral irritation set up by focus- tube exposure in a subject proved to be susceptible by previous dermatitis from a similar cause . Another case has come under the -writer’s notiee . A practical worker > Mr, C-roenhill , was carrying out a series of experiments involving exposure of the regia* of the stomach for a period of about two hours daily . After some weeks he complained of gastric symptoms , such as pain , tenderness on pressure , flatulency , colic , & diarrhoea . lie went away into the coi?ftry A got well « On his return he resumed his experiments , A after a fortnight experienced a similar attack . he subsequently shielded his stomach with a thin sheet of lead , A his symptoms finally disappeared . $his history certainly suggests that in his case the rays of the focus-tube caused a direct inflammation of the gastro-intostinal mucous membranes . Other facts pointing to deep auction of the focus- 2 - - tube rays are the apparent local tremors tf tea. set up by 1 exposure , A the apparent shrinking of the heart noticed totf. in several insthces byalir. &ez ley Thorne . Lastly , there 2 is the action , noted by Desp eigne A others , of these %&•!****• rays in the relief of the pain of cancer . 0. cJi/UyU^^ Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N. J. Dear Mr. Edison:- Your kind favor of Nov. 6th I find on my return from a two weeks' absence. It will give me great pleasure indeed to spend a day with you at your mining works when everything is in full blast. I will enjoy this very much and trust you will not forget to let me know when you are ready. [ENCLOSURE] [FILMED IN SECTIONS] II II 2 the sun. CLEANED BY SAND BLAST. Edison Can Recover the .iron in Low-Grade Ores. SECRET OF THE PROCESS. Collects tho Powdered Metal by [ENCLOSURE] Eleetro-Mngnuts. RESULT OE TEARS OF LABOR. r.jjf . •• GEORGE H. GUY 120 LIBERTY STREET NEW YORK SCIENCE INDUSTRY ELECTRICITY New York, _ Hny. P.3, 1RQ7. _ ,89 Frank R. Upton Esq., Edison, N.J. Dear Mr. Upton:' You may -remember tliat wlien 1 was last at Edison we had a short conversation on the appearance of my story of the Edison magnetic ore separator process in a Pittsburg paper. My story was duly accepted by die Pittsburg Dispatch, but afterwards turned down in consequence of an exceedingly friendly bit of work by McClure’s. If 1 had wanted to do such a tiling, 1 could easily- much more easily than not - liave scooped tliem on both their syndi¬ cate and tiieir magazine articles; but to be perfectly fair to them 1 took special trouble to have an agreement with than as to a cannon date of publication for our respecti ve syndicate story. Of course, the appearance of the magazine before its date of pub¬ lication would prejudice my story if it got into tie hands of such editors as had accepted at, and McClure's promised me that it should bef^6 5or* 1T/t,ie date of Publication of the syndicate beil?f> fixed as Oct/ 30. To rewarding for my desire to with aT’ pth9y L°°k Vi tJ9uble t0 Place*oop*es of their magazine. * A fie number of leading papers, among which, of course. th« dt?R SUre • 0 be i?“lud9d some °f ”Y with the intimation that the magazine would be out on Oct. 30, and tlB natural implica¬ tion tliat tliey could help themselves to tie story . This of s Withrow™? °f, my Papers, vliicli .liad taken my nft£i ,bwiWn + fc up' t,ie Dispatch among the number. Tliis is a sort it is . doubtfuiawho tiieV lt^pay s^im^lf tfis3*85 onCie-: 80(1 eren tll0n conspicuous element, as whi5eydnir£*m« m. 1 1 ^".malice is the but little good. This hniiLj me mudl ,iann i* could do them should not have men tioned ft h^S r'°! amJ}9nt ^ory, and I 1 had not forgotten my pSUV |5S 1897. Edison, T.A. - Clubs and Societies (D-97-06) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison’s membership in social clubs and professional organizations. There are only 3 items for 1897: letters about Edison’s membership in the Engineer’s Club of Philadelphia and the Associazione Elettrotecnica Italiana; and a lifetime membership card for the International League of Press Clubs. All the documents have been filmed. y r J <'/> y S ' ; WMr/trxw///:'- c / x^Ax/r/ia M/ 0> 1 / /?' 1 t I Sede Centrale L (Jjyzti +v ^ fef - 9 a U-Ci: * Ufyfi AjrcXJ' H-\J^f I ‘/li 5. P@10, (0 1 - » U. L/4tea i-w^. •voc.^Lftg.J^ '•t.o (tt-A. o ^dcvXt./v'. r" ^ £-r % d« *■' ^ 1*9 cu ^-or 0- -(f . --C 1 c *z7- "7 A f . ^ ertar^” u « «a.w ^ 0/- -lO-t. ■ ^ ^ /^/C,., «***. -/^ -^7 ^U- , r 7; - 7 L/ y^,,t'^y ^ pr -A w. ' ^ t+' C*-'/ ^CsV-0C(/ 23* -'/^o / '<^7 -A^Scwr (77^ -£Z^> —4 ,s. ./t/eoiC -v44 7 L*aL& . ^ M- 7 tx^-yfr/^ /7Z/ eytytr/^-^r / 7 && 7 a presidents ^~Y, (—0 b> lsi^tr7-t> C-rf V e'iyy tfZ&CytZ v/ 4£L- 0/JLo-i/n ’ ‘ ? . ,/. ■? . ■-/ . ~y '' . /^° JtyiTycC <£* t— . _Macflli_9.,_185.7_-__ 7W‘/r//r: 77tyu/-//uus//: Thomas A. .Edison, Esq., / ‘"Orange , N. J. Dear Sir: . We enclose he rewith new notice of premium renewal in the es tahe of William L. Edison. The premium charge is corrected* and we thank you for call¬ ing attention to the mistake in the other notice . Yotirs very truly, M-E*M* American Surety Company of New York, bv777?37 77777:333^ Attorney. 2$, /r?x /i /far, yfa, 4>u.^, S&,

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Edison, Electrician, Orange, it. j. Dear sir;- Your letter reached r 26th, 1897, which reads thus: "Dear Sir:- In reply to your favor of the 15th inst., 1 beg to state that l told B. II. Velton to help Symington if he got in bad straits. " Yours truly, Thomas A. Edison. " This letter 1 tool: over to Mr. Welton, who told me that he had no money, and that if Symington was hard up, he might apply to the town. This insulting remark was characteristic of a man who is probably honest enough, but to his long life has never had a though^or an interest in anyone but himself; however, he gave him a small order on a store, that was probably owing him--this the out¬ come of your generous intention towards Symington. He seemed to treat the matter as if it was coming out. of himself, and he affects a mystery and non-commital in the matter. My letter to you called your early associations; the lngg years of intimacy of Symington with your father and mother, and in view of the lavish generosity you have always shown to your re¬ latives, I but echoed the sentiment of the public when I suggested that if you could see your way clear, that you would settle a small annuity upon this worthy< eouji&e, who represent to you the last loving lixik of your early associations. It would be very little to you, but very much to them, in their declining years, and would meet the suggestions of many of the leading people here, I send you a cutting 1 took from the "Times" at the time you were invited here on your Birthday. Mark its pathos and elegant diction. But upon interrogating him afterwards, he said that when he discovered the motive he wrote to vou to keep out of it. You luckily did. Supposing you was to send so much quarterly, by check direct te your secretary. ^Hoping you will answer this, believe me, Ever thine, J , ue, c_. £7 ; , o [JULY 17, 1897?] A' X l9~£M. JUi. lirf/fJz., 7b k^LgsutZ. ^JbZ ■>/ Jb A*7 bu^_ i&si/h ~h^b -^l/b- 'h^£~ yj^ ^u'iZszt ■ t/b /*«**’’ &<>fcag/ f . Q/b i /t/b, i& y y*j-. T^f T4'pz<— cUuLc 1a At , siZrfV fantT^i . &4r7n^l!^^^up/'b~h b /vt'jLt. V" htotaj- : lAbabr Tht. aAJ £&_ no^6l A/d, A Asc.edt A/zt- *uA£iy, -A/t, Ap/j . A M&tA A's*yAy A'.ict J /rAw tt'c* dc, *, L^y^- .^y sits /a dA, fofntlt/ a A,, ~ A.-/,rv AV~ jAc/z/i - AA( Ay/o <■ '*yt A/ r7 y/yy <-<_ A '■s4-p/~c' ,? A Ac, sd 4-t <•-«- y /SydApr^r - Si sC ‘/'Y l// *r/c/A c'/"*^/ A > A/cAf XciA-'S s£*,'- d%f A/Oldy/, ASA.py > jA * A. As /Ayy ?ryie.d/d ALsA SC, - /rA« d Zd. ,< ~ AA,C Ay/ dAz Asfdds Ac/d s-ts '/A dyd 7 A/ So jfcy xdAc SdAIcs : AcA // A/i/yCd Asyy-AAd/- f-p/A- [ENCLOSURE] /U'/. 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REDINGTON (PHOTOCOPY)], cm, q- 1 3 — q *7— op -tf.e .myit-- W( 3 ~T~ ^ ^eutm Cn tuandeJ Germ COnan ' t ^ 2:1 Je\ ^ -M . • “ 1 3 1 , '* ** <*'>+<‘‘'"••1 -^«d r? * f t <.ff®. fc uw >•’’’1*1 ~tt>o» - to ujiop . hi e*:. j-* r ,j « P 0 ^errr^e vm C^jP aCUO e _ jA J |f 1 Jor* "£o*o ^LO i5 "tta, i P Oto^-fe opoSe. m m JeeJ of^oo £j- Orrvt^ /S&*cl»eo_ - cxrr»J r*e “to <±*rry* g “to i|0t>r) cerrxJuah; iluolwi "€e. -^Zn'ft'-e wunioi _ ^ $ '^-E^. 'Ce ovrtoLo college f2l|_ 6Df- ^L.C mo+decJeJ CL'M let" .| oo Cu.iu q (fou+ it" , ol J y j 1c "t oOu, muwS t 'fie ujitti i|OU "tSuo luvnfen- ~,J I €ofe LO-.II &.4L+U -.X New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works. GENERAL OFFICES: SON'S LABORATORY, ORANGE, N. J. Edison Office Telephone, 6 B Doveh, n. J. Orange " “ 31 1 Ofianqe. Edison, Sussex Co., N. J. 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He can , however, furnish a bond in an amount equal to- the present approximate value of thp stock, and he thinks that under all the circumstances of the case and the remote possibility of the lost certificates now turning up afte,r the lapse of seven years, the same should be deemed sufficienj and satisfactory. If you would kindly represent to Mr. Edison that feature of the case I have no doubt he will, see the justice and; propriety of givings his- approval to such a proposition, Your’s truly •> ^ v j> v ^ V* i/Wp ic (rY <*4 te^/' wci( vv^ uv» J^Z^CC. C*-|^££a. {>$ o-^f'^-1 liu^> «J^ eX-^^cTVv oUwW TW» us(»«j •^[fcit— iu m-«o **■ ‘u*w/‘°'*" rf -cf; rowje. ^ ^T 6*. 1 4T l7w *T h n ntfe-d-w* , ;> ^ o^t J-«.-tit *«-» u~ K-d^e. ^*'(’< tJL*. fiLe-vtl u» +■> &«- oUlx^^di ^ -h t fcrT?-=— u»=^> &„ ttet- ih ft j ^/La e?(jk_>o^( t VV. o. fvevs. — jul ua ■ju a / Z- tL •■''f t ©■|5>* p «..^v^t l^_ ?L« &o 'Kof’ V-d T/fe toevfi eu> wi-.ujUe.i5fc ■>• (y0“ t-^-C '-^ c^v.^^-^-' — fep T p*. ^ 4_, JLn£L A~ /- Qu~tr ■*- ~ H-J__ A. r- A ,rju /i^C /f-.ooo ^ Edison, N. .T. October 5th. 1897>, Mr J. F. Randolph, Orange, Hew Jars ay. Dear Sir:- Mr Edison wanWcopies of letters etc that have written Mr laws on relative to the' Ortia Grant proposition, arrange so that we pay have them next Monday. Yours very1 truly, “W&wJl u fk been Please 1897. Motion Pictures (D-97-17) This folder contains correspondence regarding the technical and commercial development of motion pictures. Included are letters about the marketing strategy of Maguire & Baucus and the purchase of a stereopticon apparatus by the Edison Manufacturing Co. There are also letters to Thomas A. Edison, Jr. concerning the donation of films to Yale University. All the documents have been filmed. 44 Pine St. Personal Mr'. Thomas A. Edison, Orange , N. J . Dear Mr. Edison:— New York, mv6h 24th, 1897. ^ Cl . In a spirit of discouragement, because I sea for the first time that I have proceeded upbu a wrong basis, I write you this letter and feel that it is my duty to explain to you how my mistake occured. Several years ago it became apparent to me that yourfforeign busi¬ ness was not being handled in a proper manner and by proper parties; the same result was apparent to me in certain transactions in this coun¬ try, and I gathered together a set of men whose integrity of purpose and business standing could not be questioned, to proceed up<^,auawjL£ne and to establish if possible with proper financial standing,vwUchwould in the end increase your profit and pay a fair profit to ourselveB. It was for this reason that we have spent money without stint in the organization of this business being absolutely satisfied that the future of the business was secure, so long as we. stood loyally to pou, and feel¬ ing that the more .extended our acquaintance became the more you would be satisfied with the out come. You say in your telephone message to us that "your general expenses are too large for your sales" For your information I would say that neither Mr. Baucus, Mr.. Howe, nor .myself have ever drawn one penny of salary from M & B Limited; our office expenses are simply Asst,; Manager, Book-keeper, Stenographer, and 2 Office boys; the London Office comes practically under the same head as £Sr as expenses are concerned, we were building for the future and now for the first time I realize my mistake. Pefore this house, which we have built, is torn down let me state what it lias done for you: 1st — It has successfully handled the Kinetoscope business in foreign countries in a far more satisfactory manner than wbb done hefevs 2nd — It has taken at least 2/3 of your out put of films and estab¬ lished that business upon a basis which would not have been done other¬ wise. : 3rd — it has secured for you the subscription of the Coats family to the amount -of $80,000 in the Concentrating Works. 4th — j.t has paid you including the Coats subscription, roughly over, $260,000 since its organization. 5th — it has upheld your name, fought law suits in your behalf in order that the atmosphere might be cleared and fakirs see that there was some one looking after your interest that did not propose to be trifled with. 6th — It has established financial connections of the highest charac¬ ter in Europe and agents in most of the important countries abroad, and because of recent ofinnections- of political importance can extend your business on a scale that is not .possible through any other concern. You say that you have made up your mind to do a strictly competi¬ tive business and yet you turn over the autjput of your factory on phono¬ graphs to Tewksbury giving him extra consessions, and when we offer to take the output of your factory on films, a business which we have built up, you refuse. . - . Edison- You very much doubted my statement that a large dealer should sug¬ gest that this internal competition among concerns who handle your goods was a bad policy. Well, here is the. letter enclosed and I call your attention to the first paragraph of it as evidence of the fact. I have never knowingly made an untruthful statement to you. ^ 4?r' Mo Allistar informed me that not only did Mr. prescott offer him §9.50 on films and §67.50 on machines but that he bought a machine of him yesterday, and has a receipt for it, for #65.00 and that Mr Prescott quoted him verbly #9.00 on films. Now as you know Tewksbury is paying §8.50 for films, you have before you the spectacle of these men selling films for you for 25 cts.. profit apiece. How long do you sup¬ pose the factory can continue under such condition^ and how long can ■a*) honest and respectable dealenshandle your aoods under such conditions? Suppose we buy phonographs of you at 60$Tdiscount and offer to sell them singly for #22.00 ojfoi5% ott, what will be the result, and could a dealer afford to,handle i/S&? goods? 1 had supposed that if we built a solid house both here and abroad, for the handling of your business, that success could not help to come, 8011 t0 a,,y fakir ou -the street without or standing, good& at^thesame figure that you sell to us, our house fails and you are proceeding upon a business policy that is at variance with every well known rule in trade, and the experience of concerns that have attempted to proceed against these rules has ended in their dismay, and their final return to the basis that they endeavoured to over turn. I have proceeded for years upon lines of strict loyalty To you, and the concern which was my conception has adhered to these lines even when it was worth #50.000 in cash in our pockets to leave you and take up a competitors line of goods. Pardon the length of this letter but I have felt that it was my duty to make .my position known to you and if you could not see the error of the policy pursued by yourself, this experience that I have gone through may prove of value to some one in the future and the path he travels inau hot be so rocky. Yours truly. May I kindly ask your response to this. Messrs. Maguire & Baucus, New York, N. Y. Gentlemen:- With reference to the conversation had with you the other day, we reiterate the statement made you, to the effect that we consider it bad business policy to have internal competition among yourselves, and that you ought to get together and settle on prices. We would suggest that Films be charged to every. one from the factory, yourselves included, at the full retd.il price, and that discounts be allowed, governed by the number of films, also number of instruments purchased in any 12 months, or upon the amount of business done in any 12 months, and that a rebate be allowed at the end of this period. It is very difficult for a dealer to know how to conduet the animated picture machine business and the sale of the films, under the present system of cutting prices, as is done by most every one in the business. We have seen several letters and circulars from dealers, offering 50 ft, films (Edison's) ranging, in price from $11. to' $12. This we suppose is done as an inducement, or as a help for the sale of their particular machine, but it has a tendency to lower the business in the eyes of the consumers, and is detrimental to any honest dealer. [ENCLOSURE] Type -Q" Cell, M. & B. 2 T We would suggest that rebates should only be allowed to dealers upon their signing an agreement to up-hold the full retail prices of Edison’s products. And that any cutting of prices would forfeit all their claim of rebate. Yours truly, T. H. McAllister. Knowing that you are very raucji interested in the subject of manufacturers discounts to jobbers, and in the jobbers discounts to deal¬ ers, I give you a little information I received from Mr. Seth Thomas, treasurer of the Seth Thomas Clock Company. As you know Mr. Thomas has had a large expreience as manufacturer, and his opinions are valuable both from the experience which he has had in his own company and the con¬ nections he has had with various other companies. Wishing for his views on this matter of discounts, I asked him for information as to the methods used by the different companies which he was familiar with, and he stated that in almost every case the manu¬ facturer, when he gave a man a jobbers discount he required him to sign an agreement stating that he would not sell the goods that he was jobbing below a. certain figure, and that in the event that he broke this agree¬ ment he was to lose all consideration due him as a jobber or dealer. Wishing to get accurate information in'- regard to the method and general usage I asked Mr. Thomas if he considered an agreement between the jobbers individually practical, and he replied that that had been tried in many cases with the results that were universally unsatisfactory Type *Q" Cell, cAt^wtistiMTEFeniiys. that the only way to contnol prices was fob the manufacturer to make an agreement with each jobber, and for the manufacturer to hold each jobber to said agreement. As you are aware Mr. Thomas is a warm personal friend of mine, and takes a great interest in the success of our company, so I took the liberty of stating to him the present status of our relations with the Edison Manufacturing Co. When I told him that we had offered to take practically the whole uotput of the film department of the Edison Manu¬ facturing Co. at prices acceptable to that company, he expressed great surprise that our proposition had not been taken up stating that that was the ideal way in which most manufacturing companies liked to have the selling end of their business carried on. I submit this information to you feeling that it comes from a man whose opinion is valuable, and feeg of you to use every effort to make Mr. Edison realize that if he wishes us to carry on this business in a ■ successful way, both for him and for ourselves, that it will be necessary for us either to take the output of the film factory, or else for him to arrange the selling price for ourselves and the other jobbers, and to see that these prices are adhered to. I wish to impress on you again that it is entirely impractica¬ ble for us to arrange prices with the other jobbers, and that we must in- sist on the Edison Manufacturing Co. doing this themselves. It certain¬ ly is only a consideration that every manufacturer owes to a regular jobber. Yours as ever, (signed) William M. Paxton, Jr. (Ar1 ( , ap Thomas A. Edison, Esq. , • >yn'~' Edison, Sussex Co., H. My dear Mr. Edison: I enclose two blue prints of combination apparatus ' that is gotten out by J. B. Colt & Co. of Hew York. Blue print #1 shows the apparatus they furnish to exhibitors for utilizing our regu¬ lar strips and whilst changing to throw on stereoptican slides. For this they ask #175. 00. #3 shows the apparatus whioh they furnish at $75.00 complete, for operating our films. I think that #1 is about what you want, and I am pretty sure that -.1. can purohase it for less money, as the price quoted is list. #2 is simply sent to show what they furnish. This apparatus is not equipped to operate our 50 ft. or endless strips, only the long strips operated by reels. X had V/hite go to several plaoes, and this is the best that he could get. Colt does not advertise anything in his catalogue. He went to see Riley Bros., whose advertisement you saw in the Electrioal World, and they have not any apparatus or any catalogues. I assume that they are not doing a very large business, and I think that if we should order one,, of - the apparatus from them we would have to wait until Type ”Q" Cell; T,A*E* (S) 4/7/97. it was 'built. Riley Bros, told White that they did not have a sample that they oould show him and he saw none in the plaoe. They may possi¬ bly Know White, but, at any rate, Mr. White will have another party oall on them to see if he can get a catalogue. Yours very truly, Enc-F. .% /'3 W7. Or. Or. Yale University Gymnasium. WM. O. ANDERSON, M. D., New Haven, Ct. ,#/?'. Q. - My dear Mr Edison:- ^ noticed by the N.Y. Herald. Sunday last that your Father had had taken pictures of Aorobatio work in N.Y. oity. One of the Barman tumblers acting as model. We want to study the somersaults and flip flaps at Yale in a scientific manner and I write to ascertain whether 1 oan seoure some of the pictures of the four somersaults, thrown by Werts. Very tr\ily yours. Mr Thomas A. Edison Jr. Orange N.J. Laboratory. 4/23 1 In reply to yours of . 4/21 . ; JJear Mr lidisont- ; back flic and rv?? sot mo * str±P ot the film showing the front, aaojc, Flip and roundoff I shall appreciate it as wo oan study it in the ; rat ory here. The boys will be mighty glad to get it in case the uxl ; penso ls not too great I should like to order suoh port ions or all of the fim j as Y°u raay think necessary to study the postures. ‘ f iSl Thanking you for your courtesy/ 1 am Cordially yours. Mr Thomas A. Edison. Jr. The Edison Laboratory Orange, N.J. My dear Mr Rdison:- I , . . . 'L?lave ^eon away from the oity hence the delay In aoknow- 1 lodging your hind gift to the University. Wo shall ho able to use the film j to great advantage in the eleotive work hero and in behalf of the Univ. X wit to tnank you for the strip. Trusting that X shall see you at Chautauqua I am Cordially yours. Mr Thomas A. Rdison Jr. Orange N.J., 1897. Patents (D-97-18) This folder contains correspondence and other documents from Edison’s patent attorneys and agents relating to domestic and foreign patent applications, patent litigation, and other patent matters. Included are letters pertaining to patents for the kinetoscope, the phonograph, and ore milling machineiy. There are also documents regarding a kinetoscope interference case involving Edison and officials of the American Mutoscope Co. and items concerning Edison’s testimony in a boiler patent case. Most of the letters are from the law firm of Dyer & Driscoll. All the documents have been filmed except for 7 routine letters of transmittal and acknowledgement. OH DYER & DRISCOLL. LAW OFFICES, •fcomitv; mtcnt, 30 WALL 8TREET N ew York,.- January;;:.28.,....189.7., . Dear Mr. Edison Hfywood, will go up on the N.Y., S. &\w. R.R. tomorrow, Fnlday, morning, at 8:30, Kindly have the team meet him at Ogjlensburg. You will find him an exceedingly ^intelligent man. I will send by him the papers in the pending, cases on .ore milling work, and the notes on cases not filed. ht wirj/be impossible for me to get to Edison this week, but after Mr. Haywood makes the drawings I will see you and will, if necessary, subsequently visit the mill. Kindly explain to Mr. Haywood the features of novelty j in each case, so that he can know what features to give promi¬ nence to in the drawings, and if not too much trouble, 1 would^ like you to make a brief memorandum of the points you think should be claimed in each case. Youri? very truly. pi*** - Jc UJ S' ‘■’■‘/■i DYER & DRISCOLL. N EW YORK, - l9,toary...,a., . Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N.J. Bear Mr. Edison: After our talk yesterday with regard to the duplicating question, it occurred to me that if we permitted the Oraphophone Co. to sustain the duplicating patents, although that company conceded the right of the National Co. to use those patents, the sustained- patents might be used by the Graphophoue Co. to your injury, by licensing all the small concerns to do duplicating work , provided they purchased their blanks from the G. Co. This result could only be prevented by getting the G. Co. to agree not to license under the patents. This would be, of course, an agreement entirely outside of the present agreement. In .view of this uncertainty, I have con¬ cluded not to suggest that T am now in a position to take a retainer from the G. Co. on these patents. Is it your wish that I should undertake any negotiations on this subject, ■ orrsho.uld we let the G. Co. take its own course? With regard to the Ainet patents, I find one patent (No. 563,693): of which I enclose a c opy, which has a claim covering apparently the diaphragm construction you proposed yesterday. With regard to the kinetograph, it occurs to me to call your attention to the fact that the patent which you are about to get, covering the taking of the pictures, and the film with pictures on it, will have its commercial value largely destroyed if you supply the market with all the icinetographs required to tajte the pictures which the exhibitors may need. In other words, if you propose to get your profit by taking and selling the pictures, you should sell only kinetoscopes, and not kinetographs . You have un¬ doubtedly had this aspect of the subject in mind, but it occurs to me to coll your attention to it. Dear Sir,- Your note of the 4th Inst, came duly to hand. We enclose herewith two Amet patents on the Eohophone, Nos. 562 i 694 and 562*753. We also enclose a patent to Ber¬ liner, Wo. 634,543, and call your attention particularly to the reproducing machine illustrated in figure 3 and to claims 6 and 35. In connection with this patent we call your at¬ tention to an earlier Gramophone patent to Suess, No. 427,279, which shows a reproducing machine embodying the broad idea of the Berliner patent. The claims, however, are limited to the feature of counterbalancing the reproducing mechanism. The enclosed copy of- this patent is incomplete, but the missing portion ia of no importance, as it relates only to the de¬ scription of figures 3 and 4. We believe Berliner -must have filed an affidavit carrying his date of invention back of the date of fili'ng of the Suess application to obtain the claims referred tp, DYER & DRISCOLL. 30 WALL STREET Thomas A. Edison, ] Orange, N.tf. New York, Peb ruar-y 26,-1897... Dear Sir,- We enclose herewith an amendment, which contains an en¬ tirely new set of claims, in your phonograph application cover¬ ing the machine in wh/ch blanks of large and small diameter may be used. This case/ Jrou will recollect, was^'alfcowMfand re¬ cently renewed undea instructions from you. Attached to the amendment is an additional oath, whioh kindly execute and swear i indicated, apd return the papers to us. Yours truly. DYER & DRISCOLL. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, '• N.J. N ew York, ...March.. .4., .1.89.7-. . V Dear Mr. Edison,- I enclose declaration of interferenea/ln the Kinetograph case, and the preliminary statement which we have prepared for you. You_yill observe that the interfering ap¬ plicant is Casler, the man. Should we beat him on the interference, we will have a good ground for moving for preliminary injunction against him af ter /e get the patent. The interference may therefore prove a real advantage. In stating the dates in your preliminary statement, I was guided by the following faots: You filed a caveat de¬ scribing the invention October 15th, /l888. The firBt work was done in the laboratory February/6th, 1889. Your applica¬ tion was filed August 24th, 1891. / The first Kinetoscopes were not sent out until 1894. Kindly sign the preliminary statement and have Johnny swear you to it (request him to/use his seal), and return it to us with the declaration of interference. (Enclosures) In the kinetograph interference with easier, the decided in your fiavor on the record because Cas- i preliminary statement d/d however, that Casler made carry hack his date of in- the filing kt your application. It appears, informal motion to dissolve the Interference on the ground' that the issue was anticipated. That motion was denied without notice to us, because it was formal. It can be renewed any time within twenty days, have sent to Washington /for a copy of the paper, so as to ii vestigate the reference's. J Y^^^ve^^truly , N.J. ft*** ' 3-*^t MEMHF.R OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. A. PARKER-SMITH, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, H(D» ll@ HASS3AHJ ST IB IE IE "IP 9 SPECIALTY, PATENT, TRADEMARK Thomas A. Edison , Esq. , Orange, N J . OF MINING ENGINEERS. FORMERLY EXAMINER IN THE U. S. PATENT OFFICE. 2, — AprJLL-lst., . Dear Sir:- I believe my friend, Mr. Richard Dyer, Has written you in fegard to my (.desire to introduce in evidence in the case of the American Graphophone vs Leeds et al, the depositions given by you in the phon ograph* litigation against your companies. My sole desire is to get these depostlons in evidence, but as Mr. Mauro insists on having you produc^for cross-examination, it has been necessary for me to bother you in the matter which I otherwise would not have done. In the effort to accommodate you so far as possible how* ever, I have arranged to have the Examiner come over with the sten¬ ographer and counsel next Monday, April 5th, and I will then put in your depositions and offer you for cross-examination to Mr. Mauro. I enclose copy of subpoena which I have taken out in the cc-t, matter, which reads^ requiring your attendance at my office, and this letter is to state that in order to accommodate you as before stated , we will waive serving this supoena and come to your laboratiry and take the deposit ion. Trusting that this will suit your conveniences, I remain. [ENCLOSURE] fgx*esicTettt of tlte United states of America, to !pt- cv-o - MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. TELEPHONE CALL. -1418 CORTLANDT. A. PARKER-SMITH, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, (American Tract Society Ruildinp.) MINING ENGINEERS. NT, TRADEMARK FORMERLY EXAMINER IN THE Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N.J. Dear Slr:- -Apr-S.f 189-7-.^/ I have your note stating that next Monday will be sat¬ isfactory to you in the matter of your examination in the Graph- ophone case. We will leave New York at 10:10, arriving at Orange at 10:57 and come immediately to your laboratory, hoping to reach there about 11 o’clock. Yours truly, P. 0. Box 2979. ARTHUR v. BR1ESEN, / ANTONIO KNAUTH. i / Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orango, N. J. Dear Sir:- In conformity with your consent, T havq//ar ranged with the Court here and with Mr. Shields, the United States Examiner, and the opposite side, to take your test tafony at your Laboratory on Monday next, May 24th, at 11:15 A./M. This testimony will, I believe, be quite brief, and mainly to the effect that you are acquaint Sd with the Climax boiler, appreciate it s advant ages over other boilers because of the net— work of tubing which embraces it and which receives the impact of the flame and for other reasons that you are much more .competent to state than I am to suggest. I may also ask you whether you have looked at the patents and arrived at a conclusion regarding the same. Trusting that our arrival on Monday next will not annoy you too seriously ajid thanking you for your great courtesy in allow- BRIESEN &. KNAUTH, COUN8ELOR8 AT LAW, 229 BROADWAY, Now York, May 20, 1897. „,y. ,y .y/. V;,,J,„, ?/brr/; June 3, 1897. John F. Ott, Esq. , Edison's Laboratory, Orange, N.J., Dear Mr. Ott:- On the 29th ult.we forwarded to Mr. Gilmore a prelimi¬ nary statement to be executed by Mr. Edison in an interference involving the following combination in a phonograph: - "T*J® combination with a support mounted to rotate re- n« Hie Sa5® direction> ot a Phonograph recorder on one ^ide thereof and a reproducer on another side". With our letter, we forwarded copies of the drawings in Mr. Edison's application involved in this interference. Mi; Edison was at our office yesterday and in speaking of this matter said that he thought a recorder and reproducer of the character shown in the drawings were constructed, and that he turned the matter over to you to look it up. We wish you would do this without delay, since the preliminary statement must be filed in the Patent Office early next week. If you find a model was made, a new statement will have to be prepared. If possible, kindly send a reply through Mr. Clark, our drafts- 9/ tJZ'fls/xco//.. akjwefc ijficMWj/fos.- £$r/r///Oy& y$r/e///^$a/sJrJ, June 30, 1897. Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Orange, N.J., Dear Sir:- We enclose herewith the amended preliminary statement in the interference witlTvBruening; also a statement for the new interference declared June 14th, 1897, with an application of George W. Somber of Conyngham, Pa. The issue in the new interference is as follows:- \ "In a talking machine, thVcombination with the car¬ riage and the tablet carrying \ylinder, of a pivoted hold¬ er adapted to carry a recordingXand transcribing diaphragm and so formed that said diaphragms will be held in a dif¬ ferent plane with respect to. each other, and means for bringing either of said. diaphragms into contact with the tablet, as and for the purpose set fo^th." Kindly sign the statements as indicated in pencil and tales the oath before Randolph and have him return the statements to us. Yours truly, rtf'. (Enclosures). eh & - /ov> ilC W ' % r//.. 1 •f*MMe/6tjf*6n at!*& ^^.//"^^/'/^ugust 5, 1897 John P. Randolphs Esq. , Edison Laboratory, Orange, N.J. We have brought suit on Edison patents on phonograph blanks, numbered as follows: — 382,418 (SeAal Ho. of application, 265, 889).— 382,462 ( " \ " " » » .» 259,898) r-'' 400,648 C " \ " » » » 281,457) -'" A 430,274 ( " " " " » 281,454) T : The title of all these pntents has, we believe, been vested in the national phonograph Company either by assignment direct from Mr. Edison to thatccompany, Vr through assignments to the Edison Phonograph Company and to j\hn R. Hardin, Receiver, but we do not find that the title paper^have been recorded at Wash¬ ington. Kindly make a thorough search of your papers and see what title papers you find bearing upoX these four patents. It is possible that in some cases an assignment was made before the patent was granted and that therefore, th\ application number rather than the patent number, was given, tar this reason we have given you above the number of both patent ank application in each case. If you can conveniently do this to-mowow, we should be obliged; in any event, please let us hear froAyou by Saturday noon as to the result of your search. Yours truly. I (4 rs/ZY^e ^ „ A — v ./L£ 4S^. C>^; ^ 3> ^X /^c^UtA- /^L^ ~7'^ cq_^^ C J jL-> # ~JA ^ j X. 6v—t7''1^ ^ 6/s [ENCLOSURE] U. S. PATENT OFFICE. PETITION TO INSTITUTE PUBLIC USE PROCEEDINGS. In the matter of the petition of H. N. Marvin to insti¬ tute public use proceedings for the purpose of preventing the issue of a patent to Thomas A. Edison, on. an application Serial No, 405,534, filed August 24, 1891, for an improvement in Kinetoscopes. This is a petition by H. N. Marvin, second vice presi¬ dent of the Mutoscope Company, assignee of the invention set forth in an application of Herman easier, filed February 26, 1896, Serial No. 580,811, praying that the Commissioner of Patents make an order authorizing the petitioner to take de¬ positions of witnesses to prove that the apparatus described and claimed in the application of Thomas A. Edison, filed August 24, 1891, Serial No. 403,534, was in public use for more than two- years prior to the date of making any claim for said apparatus in this application. The object of the public use proceedings prayed for is to show that Edison has no right to make any claim based upon the apparatus described in said application, by reason of public use of said apparatus for mo re than two years prior to the amendment embodying claims for the apparatus :'in this application. On August 24, 1891, Edison filed in the Patent Office, three applications relating to the subject of taking and ex¬ hibiting photographs. One of these applications, Serial No. 403,536, for a method and apparatus for repf odttcingr.pictures became a patent. Another, Serial No. 403,535, for apparatus for taking photographs, became abandoned sometime in 1894, by [ENCLOSURE] failure to prosecute the same more than two years after the last official action in 1892. The third case, and the one under consideration, Serial Ho. 403,534, was prosecuted to allowance, and on March 2, 1897, was put in interference with the application of easier, above referred to. The claims included in this interference are for an apparatus, and were entered in the case by amendment of December 28, 1896, the case having been amended April 18, 1896, by substitute speci¬ fication describing and claiming the apparatus, prior to this date the case having been confined to a method. This in¬ terference was on March 26, '1897, decided in favor of Edison by reason of easier’ s failure to overcome the prima facie case made against him by the date of filing of Edison’s application On April 15, 1897, easier moved to dissolve the interference, and on May 21, 1897, the primary examiner granted the motion. The decision of March 26, 1897, was then vacated and set asid^ and the interference dissolved. On June 24, 1897, the pe¬ tition under consideration was filed. It is admitted on behalf of Edsion that the apparatus shown, public described and^claimed in this application had been in use for more jthan two years prior to making clain in this application for said apparatus, and the petition of Marvin might therefore be dismissed without further comment were it not for the fact that the petition has raised the question whether the claims|now pending in this application of Edison's arejnot for an' entirely different invention from that originally made in this application, and, as there has been more than two years’ public use prior to the making of said claims, Edison has no right to a patent on said claims in this application. Several decisions have been cited by Marvin to support this contention, which decisions it is unnecessary to review here. Granting that Marvin's contention is correct -2- , [ENCLOSURE] and that the decisions bear him out in his contention, yet the question involved is one of new matter relating to the merits of the invention, which should be passed upon in the first instance by the primary examiner and the examiners-in-chief and should not be taken up by the Commissioner until it comes regularly before him on appeal from the examiners-in-chief. Furthermore, the interference between Edison and easier has beer, disolved on motion of easier and Edison* s case is now ex parte, and so far as the question as to whether or not Edison changed the invention after filing his application, whether or not the present claims constitute a depatture from his original invention, or whether or not Edison has a right to make the claims, is under the well settled practice of the office an ex parte question, on which Edison alone has the right to be heard. The petition presented by Marvin is denied. BENJ. BUTTERY/ORTH, Commissioner. [ENCLOSURE] -j ^- . M/syJ srfc i/sr//'; . .y/jY;,M»„,Ubrr/: August 12, 1897. Thomas A. Edison, Esq.* Edison, Sussex County* N.J. Dear Mr. Edison,- We are informed by our Washington agent that the kinetoscope case has been allowed and the final fee has been paid. In due course of events the patent will be issued August 31st, unless the opposing interest does something to cause the Commissioner to withhold the issue. When we get the patent, we will have to canvass the situation and lay out the 1897. Phonograph - General (D-97-19) This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the technical and commercial development of the phonograph. Included is a letter from the New England Phonograph Co. inquiring about the National Phonograph Co. and about the development of a new "home" phonograph. There are also letters from the law firm of Eaton & Lewis regarding payment for their services in a lawsuit between Edison and Ezra T. Gilliland. The following documents have not been filmed: 4 non-substantive letters pertaining to routine legal and contract matters; duplicate copies of selected items. Ptfb+hto". /J£P GLAND PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, :«^V Thos. A. Edison, Esq Orange , Dear Sir,- Maroh -1, . . }£s89# tt** (*0'f r ^d ^ i I have been requested by the Executive CMft&tte*, oi this Company to write you personally and request answers |'3M£e/f grow¬ ing questions, or information regarding the same, ' o over them. V / What and who is the National Phonograph Con,w Does that Company assume to take the plaoe$of the^rth An&rioan 'j* /"Company? . aph C^mpjJhy thqj^effeot's i6i ime , thatprfii J&r wt i and per: ’feo- Phonograph Company? Are, you still personally interested in the produ J! tion pf the phonograph? s How soon may we look for the new "Home" phonograph, to be put on

-? - AAz. /^L^c -Cyy-C. At) <£2^-«^(£~<£^~£-' y^O Ac^c^A uA . 0<_&c*-*^^„ «. . . . ... .. . . / .'4- . ^ f££gp£z t~-y / $/_. /A-yyyt* y* y*^^C De=C c^y^A^ -c ^ Ck~yy—yr ^ 4i r ^ A^t-t |?«>y-^. J /!{//,(^ A ^ ) (° T°jfe °^c,raase^ to 'Graphophone. London ." comPany- Telephone N°35051. Bdison United Phonograph Company, Mills Buildings, RSI YORK. Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your various favours of the 12th instant. As regards your cable about the French business, I have put myself ' in communication with the gentleman interested there, and as soon ab X receive a satisfactory reply' therefrom, and your legal Power of Attorney, I shall do my best to carry the matter to a successful issue. I shall not .c.oiununiqate anything regarding this to Mr, Slfoiljwerek . ., ... . , Should the French parties wish any modification of the original terms /they shall be submitted to you before conclusion. I am very glad indeed to hear that matters have now been v- _ finally arranged for the re-organization of your Company, and koooh^the I that Mr. Moriarty and his friends have got control of the whole business Edison United Co, (continued). 2. business. I trust, therefore, t,o have. at an early dateran answer to c\b my letter dated the 11th of December, as it is one which very largely affects the interests of your Company as well as of this Corporation. At present the Shares of .this Company here have no market value whatever, but I am quite sure that were the modifications suggested in that letter agreed to by you they would soon be of very considerable value; and I trust that the answer when received from you will be of a satisfactory description. ; Yours faithfully, [FEBRUARY 1, 1897] 3^^ ^<= -^r (%ja_ ft— ^r'^'f-i ,~rf — /r “i <3l/~ /^vL— >^~^| ^A~'^^rri- f0^ IrTtU ' ,,,a/w d>'- «-6^'fcr [ATTACHMENT] S. F. Moriarty, Esq., Hotel Waldorf, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir:- I find that I cannot assign any further Manufacturing Rights. 1 could not Jusity myself to the Stockholders, neither. can 1 Justify myself in giving you one-half of the German money, and therefore 1 shall personally pay that sum to the Works out of my own pocket. Yours truly, (Signed) Thos. A. Edison. [ATTACHMENT] -err*-' [ATTACHMENT] [ATTACHMENT] "-}A-C<: ■' t-e <’ l _ / a Of f^J ■ j O ‘z - / <9 ■>. / f / i't-p Gl-ZJL. C\\,c <>,( 6£l,£> '/9y i V Z> 41 vcJ€ r O ■ Ujl&A / ? . Oric^-^J- ext J&c-^-v4 *'\ °f ' ' . V i. . \ liu |C . ■ {..■t^i. f.^if..../ ct^ & tin Cl-LA ( ;'(.. ’('■'"! -irl l S'“ ■:"■ < //u. fec; Ll-I co m (f* Co V .1 ' 'V-/ ! ( t YUsJ-f '. rt.o Gt 1 P P / L&.. cj cH a>-^e-w ^ g / .<2 ,0 tA-;«,- ... (5~Ut.O /: P C./A.VJ P\_. p|.P., kjJc7~c Ik, ~tc I'l^ r iv r Stw q r~c..f IrC'v^J t£-dU~* v K.o^-o ■ . 0 ^ •■ $(J t> u >V - __ uo ir II ^ — ,- — . ,, __ . J l^o ^ • , 1 ^ £/^ *> T / \-'tl L.O y cLute* ^ gtjjcz^ ~ ~ ' 1 / . T” ?y-#W e- ^C. ^) ? r"c fu Joh/jij Qllroy, Secretary. s.mu.l m". Zacla'rln'’s!!ft tf"a“l". Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 316, 318 and '330' Chestnut Street. Eetatea/ Jj TRUST DEPARTMENT. 1 'V • x ' ' ' Philadelphia, 89 . 7 Thos* A. Edison , E99. * Uenlo Patfc, U.J*' , CoarSir:- As representing the QuarantaaTruat J> Safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia* X endeavor¬ ed yesterday to' see you at Uenlo Park* and afterwards by telephone conveyed you a message at Edison* regarding a matter la wfcioh the Company is interested. »r.$.P*ltertarty of Hew York has recently ioeh’ endeavoring to purohase from this Company certain shares of stS>ck held by It. Vf the International Oraphophone flempahy# The *t e*me ' upen'whioh ^.Ibrlarty proposes to ; buy the ‘stock’ are. at a figure almost nominal* hut: his purpose' la' endeavoring to sasure’ the stack as stat ed by (Mm Is that he may he enabled' to • ■■■ ■•■■> Ti.W ' - ./_ . J.. V. r<*? w- ^ '3-iiisr, >Q etflfi •i®» to m we e* x***)»-ezjB K**1 tO«» **Fp° Va«ifcMW#4t# i»jSt: ** oflfeaxiiito^^fW oL „ _ _ _ /'fa? f,1 < B At f roiiwq eid Capital, $1,000,000. Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 316, 318 and 320 Chestnut Street. Estate of TRUST DEPARTMENT. PhiladelphiaJ?fll»4.iat]U . 1 89 . 7 T*A*E*-2» ret Ira it, wind up the Company, and perhaps be enabled to , fOira sqtte mew company or turn the stools over, to a new company already formed for the purpose ot, making .a sale of the product forw merly produoed by the International Graphophone Company. llr#«Oiriarty*s abllil^r to ultimately moot the payments* which ho is arranging to make cornea in a great measure ttm an agreement, which he say* that he hue made or is about, to make with you by Which he shall become either thet Superintend^ ,th# Company or in sees# imiy your Agent by appointment or ae Agent by the eucceediag Cempany to the International, for the eaio o? the instruments of the Company, fe. would like youth confirm the statement Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 316, 318 and 350 Chestnut Street. '«««/ TRU8T DEPARTMENT. Philadelphia,' - :-#eb»lSt,hJ§9 . 7 T.A.E i-S- made by Ur.Uorlarty, mere particularly lbr the reason that we have Just stated, that hi* abil¬ ity to meet the notes will greatly depend upon hi3 securing the employment mentioned above* •' ‘ Very ' t ruly' yours; •Trust Officer* •dtem-jWBfar - ¥ ^ (Qc&tm/. at U ^LyiM-tf ~fo jiAA.h iJjb '7$ CW u^fr^-A/ Auauaajlqao aaaj U & iAno-jl-JL' (ry\j 'Juj- lee. 4' ^ Aa*Xs (Xq/U.e.cL fa A-vyr, Q.f*C«dL (cur HaL, {„ Hm,r^ j A* tU^U f £UtftZ~ My dear Mr. Edison: (Dictated) newyork, February 23rd. 1897. Nearly two years have elapsed since your attention was last called to the matter of the enclosed bill for services rendered by me upon the express understanding that you were to pay for the same, and the claim is once more submitted with the view of a final dispo¬ sition one way or the other. If you are unwilling to liquidate it, the amount may pass into the realms of "Profit and Loss" where other charges have gone before. It would seem scarcely possible, however, that you will allow this course to be taken in view of the urgent necessity that existed for the services at the time they were performed, your entire accord with the the suggestion that the dispute should be submitted to me and the satisfaction that was expressed by yourself at the result reached. Prior to March 11th. 1890, you were the owner of one-quarter of the capital stock of the Edison United Phonograph Company. On that day, at your request, one share of said stock, represented by Certifi¬ cate No. 3, was issued to Major Eaton but said share had been really paid for by you and was your property and was put in the name of Major Eaton simply to qualify him to serve as a Director of the Company and the Certificate of said share was, within a few days thereafter, and on or about March 17th. 1890, delivered to you, endorsed with an assignment or transfer of the same to yourseir, or Mr. Insull, and authorizing you to make the necessary transfer on the books of the _ 1 - Company. The Secretary of the Company, Mr. Morrison, retained the stock in his custody but did not have the same transferred to you, for the reason that it was supposed that at any time when you desired to use the stock in your interest it would be an easy matter to ob¬ tain a proxy from Major Eaton. In 1894, a meeting had been called and duly advertised to be held on March 5th. of that year and it became necessary for you to have the proxy of Major Eaton to use at that meeting, in view of the fact that the By-Laws of the Company provided that no stock should be voted upon unless it had been transferred a certain number of days prior to the meeting and the time intervening was not sufficient to permit you to make such transfer. You requested Major Eaton to send you a proxy for the said share, stating that it was essential to your control of the entire Company but Major Eaton refused to execute such a proxy on the ground that he could not lawfully authorize voting on stock that he did not own and that he had never owned Bince March 17th, 1890, when he made the transfer as above Indicated. Through your counsel you communicated with Major Eaton on the subject and also corresponded with me, as my relations with Major Eaton at that time, and also with yourself, were of an extremely friendly nature and you desired me to see if some way could not be arranged to meet the difficulty. Major Eaton finally notified Mr. Parker, who was acting for you, to the effect that he would agree to place all the facts and circumstances before me, provided you would do the same, and that if, after hearing both sides, I should determine that he could execute the proxy without incurring any responsibility finan- daily or otherwise by the proposed act and you would agree to give an indemnity bond of such a nature as I should recommend, (provided hny should be recommended) and also pay my charges for services in the matter, he (Eaton) would agree to abide by my decision. This proposition you accepted expressly.-; agreeing to pay my charge for the service. At the time of such acceptance I was in Wash¬ ington engaged in a case before the Array Board, but upon telegram received from you stating the urgency of the situation, left Washing¬ ton at once and came to New York by night train. I at once took the matter up, and after examination of all the papers, came to the con¬ clusion that Major Eaton could be fully protected, so advised him in a long opinion, drew a satisfactory bond, had it executed, obtained the proxy and delivered the same to your counsel. The work extended over a period of several days between March 23rd. and May 22nd. 1894. My charge for services in the matter as above was $250.00. You did not express any dissatisfaction with the amount of such charge but simply said you would look into it. Since that time nothing further has been heard from you on the subject, except on two occasions when I incidentally alluded to the bill and you postponed the discussion. The facts are now all before you for your final decision. If you send me a check I shall be glad to receive it but if you re¬ pudiate the obligation it will end there as the services were of a nature involving a personal dispute between two gentlemen with both of whom I at the time occupied the most friendly relations and I should under no circumstances endeavor to enforce payment. Kindly let me hear from you at your convenience and oblige. Thomas A. Edison, Esq. YAurs/'Tjery truly, A jery^truly. n^u/ [ENCLOSURE] LAW OFFICE, 100 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. j N ew York, February,. 23rd. 1 89 J I Mr.., .Thomas . A., Edison . jJ, ^.DRIANCE j3uSH, J) R, /' IN RE PROXY OP MAJOR EATON TO VOTE STOCK OP EDISON UNITED PHONOGRAPH COMPANY. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RENDERED AS FOLLOWS; 1894, March 23rd. Interview with Mr. Parker. 26th. On consent of Mr. Edison and Mr. Eaton agreed to act as counsel in matter .27th.0onsul- ; tation with Mr. Parker, prepared letter to Mr., Eaton. 30th. Interview with Mr. Eaton, also |j consultation with Mr. Parker. April 2nd. Pre¬ pared Proxy for execution by Mr. Eaton, sent same to him with long opinion. 3rd. Received | Mr. Eaton’s objections, spent half day on rep-' ly to same and examination of authorities. j 5th. Further letter to Mr. Eaton. 6th. Pre- J pared Indemnity Bond Mr. Edison to Mr. Eaton, and long letter to Mr. Eaton. 9th. Received Proxy executed by Mr. Eaton and sent same with Indemnity Bond to Mr. Parker. 11th. Sent clerk to West Orange to deliver Proxy and receive "jOM . Bond. 12th. Delivered Bond to Mr. Eaton. 13th. Wrote Mr. Parker. 22nd. Upon transfer U. of Stock finally closed matter with 1ft*. Eaton. 250. 00 Paid various disbursements, □h— 89 ..feggj 89 Received payment. Telephone Message. Mr. Randolph: Vi**-' iif*' r i*7 7 How many shares of stock of the Edison United Phon¬ ograph Company did Mr. Edison own on March 11, 1890. 'When did he part with any or all of this stock. I want to get a proxy for Mr. and Mrs. Edison to vote for five directors at the annual meeting, which I believe oomes off in March. W. E. Gilmore. at Judge Hayes Office until 4 P, II. JLtcb filtfr I- I6e-ar Mr. .Moriaty, X have returned here from Paris this morning and found your letter of the 2nd. inst. waiting for me. I am glad "that you are making the’ arrangements you refer to and shall be’ pleased to receive from you as soon as possible the amounts Which you know of. As regards my expenses to Paris, I have only charged exactly what I spent out of pocket and have repeived the amount from Mr. Munro, who will give you an exact note of the same. I am very sorry indeed that it is quite impossible for me to go to America at present, as I am literally overwhelmed with work here and just now I cannot get away. I am delighted to hear all you say about the new machines and shall only be too glad to receive full particulars of them with the lowest prices at which we can obtain them, so that nb further time may be lost in getting to work, as our Patents are rapidly dying and in a few years it will be too late to try and make any money at all. Whatever you may say about my remark, I am absolutely as ouch^in the dark^as any one else can be, in regard to the price of thpse Machines. How in regard to my visit to Paris, as I wrote you, I made up my mind to go there as soon as I got the power of Attorney properly legalized and whenever that was in my possession, I made the necessary arrangements and left for Paris last .-Friday. Before going over myself, I sent young Mr. Brossa with the Machines that were left in your room and the best collection of Recor'ds (English & American) that I could obtain. All these records were carefully tested at Edison House by Johnston, Brossa and Mr. Finlinson and some of them were as fine records as I ever listened to in my life. _ Mr. Brossa went over on Wednesday night and before leaving X got a telegram from him, which I enclose herewith, and I also send you Mr. Vuagneux's letter which will shew you how determined they were to have the same diaphragm, as you shewed them last year. Of course, I made a complete search in Edison House for the "Bettini" Diaphragm, but was unable to find it, nor could I find any of the other records, which you took in Paris last year. I telegraphed over to Paris, that I would be there on Friday night and asked Mr. Vuagneux to dine with me at the Hotel Chatham, so as to talk matters over. Mr. Vuagneux came and stated, that he and Mr. Gervex had listened to the records, but the reproduction was nothing like so good, as what you gave them on the "Bettini" diaphragm and they were therefore of opinion, that it would be no good whatever to give an exhibition of anything inferior to what they had before done and so they counselled that this xxpia exhibition should not take place. Ho. 3. 14th. Of course, X told them that I was quite in their hands and that X did not wish to risk anything in your interest. The next morning being Sh&urday, I went out to the Studio of Mr. Gervex and tested some of the records and found that several of them were excellent and so good, that Mr. Gervex and Mr. Vuagneux determined to give an Exhibition on Monday to one or two important financial people. We some other records which all came out pretty well but none of them so loud as you had shewn them before. I found out afterwards that a great number of shops had been opened in Paris, where little Oraphophones had been shewn which were very loud indeed in reproduction, but which were not clear and pure in tone, but they were so, loud that they attracted great crowds. As I did not wish to take anything '’on trust I v/ent with Mr. Brossa to the Boulevard des Italiens, there I found a magnific- ient new shop opened and in the windows were all kinds of Edison's machines of the HI Type and also of clockwork type, also slot machines exactly the same as ours and any quantity of Graphophone Machines, both the old ’Bijou'’ Type and the Hew small type, without any strut arm to support the mandril. The show was' very good indeed and they had a lot of nickel plated trumpets fastened on to the Graphophones , which made' a great show and there was a considerable crowd round the window. Mr. Brossa went in and obtained Price lists and some information, which I beg to enclose herewith. No. 4. 14th. Without doubt this has had u most damaging effect on your irfterests in Paris and) dr. 3 idler the banker is nothing like so enthusiastic as he was' find although Mr. Yuagneux telegraphed t.o him to corns oh Monday, he received a telegram in reply that it was 1m impossible owing to a severe illness. Mr. Uuagneux tells me that he^has been suffering from some internal disorder for some months back and has lost much of his old enthusiasm and especially as we- have been so long in communioating with him. Mr. Vuagneux, however, stated that even if Mr. Zidler retired, they would have no difficulty whatever in finding the Capital-, provided' you gave an equally good exhibition to what you had given them before, but,, that unless that were doner, it would be impossible to make sure: of the Capital. Mr, Vuagneux then introduced me to the hew Kwy e-r who has 'taken up the matter, a Monsieur Desprats and he seems a very intelligent man indeed and assured me that he would have no difficulty whatever himself in finding all the money., .even if Mr. Zidler -retired. . }Sr. Desprats had gone to the trouble of preparing articles of association, which I went carefully pv.er with him and' resul t of our deliberations convinced me that, with your presence here' there would be little or no difficulty in- arranging matters entirely to your satisfaction and to the great benefit of the Edison- United Co. but I repeat it, once more that- your presence :her-e is absolutely and .entirely indespensible and the sobner you -cprae across- the better chance there is of carrying this negotiation .through. S.P.M. No. 5. 14th. I think it well to send you these Articles of Association which I do by the same Post as this letter, in order that you may have an opportunity of going over them carefully, as I have done, and you will see one or two of my .pencil ndtes, which, hovTever, are all. matters of detail and which, as I said before, can easily be arranged. They commenced to talk about ordering less than 600 .machine arid also reducing the price, but I was absolutely firm and stated to them that there was no use continuing the negotiations, if any question of the price was brought up and they Accepted that position 'at- once- and. stated that all they wanted was another exhibition similar to the last one and that beyond any shadow of doubt the matter would go through. I can only give you theiir own words and X must addmy own conviction, which is, they all seemed seriously in earnest and I believe myself that without very much difficulty, something very near the original bargian- could be carried through, if it were done promptly and you come over here within the next two or three weeks. On Monday we arranged, to meet one or two people and" Madame Rervox came and sang a song into the Phonograph making one Of the best records, I have ever heard in my life, but the re¬ production through the funnel, was not- pure and Mr. Gervex himself said- it would never do, as it was not like .what you had given on the Bettini, Diaphragm. At the same time this' record, on the Slot Machine pro- ,Jo*6- 14th. produce! a very great effect upon them an d v/as, In .ray opinion, the best record of the female voice, I have ever heard. Mr. Desprats arranged that one of his largest .clients a Mr. J.E. ffirod who had made between 70 and £80,000 out of the Cinematograph, should come and inspect the machine and he was prepared to put anywhere from £5 to £10,000 i-n the business if he were satisfied. This gentleman arrived about 3 o'clock in a carriage, but it seems he brought with him a special Phonograph expert and under the circumstanced, I strongly impressed on Mr. Vuagneux that it would not be fair to you to shew this machine, if. this expert had heard or Ihew about the other exhibition that had been given and I am very glad to say that they simply made the sxcuse, that they were not prepared to give the exhibition and would ask Mr. Girod to come again. Of course, he was a little annoyed , but Mr. Vuagneux said he will have no difficulty in bringing *k. him all right again. There is one joint upon which Both Mr. Vuagneux and Mr. Desprats are very strong and that is that you should persuade Mr. Edison at once to take out a New Patent for the^Phonorama." Vou know without doubt what the Phonorama will rep See” namely a combination of the Phonograph or Graphophone with the Cinematdr-graph or any other means of projection on a screen, as they say wo ought to have one patent taken out by "Edison for this particular purpose. The very last thing they said to me was that I was to impress this updn you with all the strength at my command as being very essential and they trusted that .you would notxk hesitate for a moment, so I leave the matter now i^n your hands to do what you ifcaink think I must say that I was very much impressed with the earnest ness of Mr. Besprats and I think Mr. Gervex is quite as enthusiastic as ever he was and, of course, Mr. Vuagaeux is very anxious to have the matter carried through also, so tMftl do believe there is a fair chance of your being able to terminate all negotiations by an actual deal, if you will -come over and take one week .in Paris. I am- sorry that it is quite out of my power, absolutely and finally to give any further information regarding the letter signed by "Baston" as I received that letter on certain undertakings which I cannot break, but you know, as well as 1 do the quantities of machines that are sent in here have been enormous and the same thing applies to Germany and to Prance also; so that you have the remedy in your own hands, if you can apply it properly. With ki-tidest regards, believe me, Tours faithfully. S/fi^eet,. .1897. Edison United Phonograph Co., John E. Searies, Esq., Pres., 87 William St., Hew York. Bear Sir: 1 am in receipt of your letter of the 16th, and in reply would say that I have made no improvements in my phonograph for a long time past that would warrant the taking out of patents. The changes that have been made were in >r.03t cases matters of design, whioh are not patentable. Yours very truly, - - - y CL ^2u^>cr t^OMA&lDLM&tarasr. Manufacturers of Worsted Coatincs Woolens &? dLo c$, dJscfumhj Mejcuu Suo bam Jcu/zru duliy imah . UJt> cuuu mo/) ditjmisLcb h wnhoJikaM OyOLb UYL tflsb PTYlClMzkJ, SziJ^ dQjyitt lo/) Aiib CLrruy OlcL- wumkLi Gaslv JubafacnikaM, gtv (fcnlti twAy @$j5mah faufajn) jjjuo tMdlmryyjjK^ .... •EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS, Orange, N. j.- July 27, 1897. Edison United Phonograph Co., 27 William St., New York. Dear Sirs:- Referring to* our conversation with your Mr, MoChesney, . and his request that we give you firm quotations on the standard "Home" Phonograph as now manufactured by us, we submit the follow ing figures: On an order for a continuous output of 10 machines p per day the price will bee - - $17.90 On an order for a continuous output of 15 machines per day the price will be — - — — ------ — - — $16.90 On an order for a continuous output of 20 machines per day the. price will be - - — - — - - 16.10 On an order for a continuous output of 25 machines per day the price will be— ————— —— $15.60 On an order for a continuous output of 30 machines per day the price will be - - - - - - $15.20 As to the new type smaller machine, which we will designate as the; "$25.00" machine ", we submit the following prices: On an order for a continuous output of 10 Machines . per day the price will be— — — - - $11.50 On an order for a continuous output of 20 machines per day the price will be- — - - - $11.20 On an order for a continuous output of 30 machines per day the price will be - - - $11.00 On an order for a continuous output of 50 machines per day the price will be - - - $10.75 each. The above quotations include packing and boxing and the delivery of the- machines f.o.b. London, all machines to be in- spected and accepted in writing*^ifteen days after their arrival A in London, and where any machines are ibund to be defective, they are to be properly re-packed and re-shipped back to us at Orange, N. J. the return freight to be paid by us on such defective machimu In the- event of their non-acceptance in writing tfithin fifteen days after their arrival in London, then it is to be distinctly Under¬ stood that the machines are accepted as satisfactory. It is also understood between us that, in the event of your placing an order for machines and it is desired to increase decrease or discontinue the daily production, we are to have ninety days written notice of such increase, decrease or discontinuance. Yours veryb truly, . . (Sgd.) W. -E. Gilmore, General Manager. DICKERSON & BROWN. Mr. George N. Mori son, #27 William St., City. New York, 27th July 1897. Dear Sir:- 1 send you herewith copy of Mr. Moriarty’s letter to me under date of July 9th, 1897, as requested. Your 8 truly, E. N. Dickerson, per Contant. [ATTACHMENT] DICKERSON & BROWN, New York, 18th June, 1897, MR, STEPHEN P. MORI ARTY, #27 William St,, N. Y. City, N. Y. Sir:- Referring to our conversation of yesterday, Mr, Bettini and myself are interested in certain inventions in regard to a talking machine called the LYROPHONE, and a Duplicating Apparatus, for which we expect to obtain foreign letters patent. We are under contract with certain parties with reference to most foreign countries, except England, concerning the Lyro- phone. We are willing to negotiate with you for Lyrophones, for England, on a basis of §3.50 f.o.b. New York, foreign packing extra, provided we have an immediate order from you for one thous¬ and Lyrophones, and you agree, subject to our cancellationmof the agreement, to sell in the first year five thousand Lyrophones, in the second year ten thousand Lyrophones, and thereafter fifteen thousand Lyrophones each year. During that period we will not sell any Lyrophones in England, or license any one else to sell yhere. The Lyrophones are sold cash on delivery, New York, as per sample to be furnished; and you are not to undersell, our market here. Concerning the other countries, wewill negotiate with you for your taking those countries over, as soon as otar contract ceases with the other parties, if it shall so cease, on subetanti- [ATTACHMENT] ally a proportionate basis. The details of that I will endeavor to arrange with you' in an equiatble way. Concerning the Duplicator Apparatus, which we will attach to an.' Edison Phonograph and exhibit before you, we will sell you our foreign patents, when they shall be obtained, on the following terms: England, $5,000. France, $5,000, Germany, $5,000. Belgium, $3,000. Austria-Hungary, $5,000. other countries to be arranged. You to agree to purchase the apparatus from us for $500., and to purchase at the present time one apparatus for each country for which you shall desire to obtain the right to purchase the patent, when issued. We understand that in making this arrangement with you, we are practically making it with the Edison Phonograph interests in foreign countries. Kindly let me know early next week if this proposition will be acceptable to you. Of course, the full details in the contract will have to be hereafter agreed upon Yours truly, (Sgd.) E.N.Diokerson, . per Cantant. [ATTACHMENT] (COPY. ) 27 William. Street, New York, July 9th. 1897. E. N. Dickerson, Esq., 253 Broadway, New York City. Dear Sir:- : . I Regret the delay in writing to you relative to the matter' contained in your letter of June 18th, 1897, which was due to my not being able to find it until this moment. Referring to my conversation with you, if you will make the termB one-half the asking prices named in your "bald letter and will give me sixty days from July 15th. 1897, 1 will go to England at once and undertake the negotiation for the rights mentioned. I promise to use my best endeavors to^accomplish this as soon as possible. Thanking you for your courtesy, I regain, , Yours very truly, Stephen P. Moriarty. P. S. The above does not refer to the prioe of $3.50 f.o.b. New York for ?Lyrophones. Please write me in regard to Bettini ’ s Micro-Reproduoer in accordance with -our conversation. . . Yours etc/, . [ATTACHMENT] Dickerson & Brown, New York 12th July, 1897. Mr, Stephen F. Moriarty, #27 William St., City. Dear Sirt- I have yours of July 9th. I do not quite understand your letter. For instance, the orders for one machine for each of the countries could hardly refer to half a machine. I think probably we could arrange upon the terms, but if I understand correctly the tone of your letter you seem to have the impression that you are to have these rights and options without any payment or order. That, of course, we cannot do. When we are agreed upon the other parts of this agreement, I think we can arrange for the foreign rights for the BSttini miorophonograph. Youtb truly. E. N. Dickerson. [ATTACHMENT] DICKERSON & BROWN, New York, 27th July, 1897. Mr. Stephen F. Moriarty, #21 William St., City. Sit¬ in' reply to yours of July 9th. , we will accept your proposition of July 9th., with the understanding that the Dupli¬ cator apparatus is to be purchased at the terms for the apparatus proposed" in my letter of Juhe 18th., the asking prices of the patents to be cut in half, as proposed by you. Kindly indicate your acceptance of this proposition, and we will oonsider the matter closed. Yours truly, (Sgd. ) E. N. Dickerson. Approved. Stephen F. Moriarty. (Sgd.) Capital, $1,000,000. Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. id 320 Chestnut Sti TREASURER'S DEPARTMENT. . 7-74/2. Ccj — : / /XJLcT) — cx-*^Oe*A) /4-*£er __ xA/y — • 'Aitj &Ls ^djZ^CotzJjiA fC.C^ud''-^s '^jS' - •Cd&-*-,£ o| /^CUjU^-J CL &CwtJLcl) ^sJaJl& <^-£L££J c^^c) Ls ao j/LLyf #0 /42/djYjf /OfO ~ ¥fO ~ ■ .?f* if . Z/J/30 / 7 Vi 10 Ad# 1 [ENCLOSURE] $te/i/m 3T?//0rthrty, 7m 'yO, .August— 10 th, _ It f/) S. F. Moriarty, Esq., PERSONAL London, England. My Dear Mr. Moriarty •1 called on Mr. Searles, this morning at 10 o'clock, and obtained his consent to purchase the Multiplex Phonograph for $190. or less, If possible^ ^Ao~ 1 discussed the matter of your Brother's Agreement, and I explained to him the advantage to us, to have some one to solioit business for the territory named, and to meet customers and rel#&ve this office in that way, but to make the story short, he consented Ax. f*Ax sCfit/ a&tncC- to sign the letter, and will do so to-morrow,^ But expeots that 4n consideration of the fact, that he has been able to obtain the p O-ttAy d cm*-tdi£Ce*ui)- 4~ prices from Mr. Edison u^n'an order for sd many machines, which he states are more than a Thousand Dollars worth, he will expect your Borther to order that amount in machines, to get the prioes to from Mr. Edison. He stated that he is even doubtful whether Mr. Edison would fill an order at the prioes quoted for a Thousand t/cT&vt-J worth.^ The matter will be concluded to-morrow. I could not make any better arrangement for your Brother, without serious liability of offending him, and I will lend your Brother every aid possible,, and I am sure he will make a success of it. • S. 7&79lm40nt r/wn/WW//jn/u LLI AM STREET, 7Zm/1/^Za VM/J/my ^//^^^1^ugU8t-2nd,^89.7..^Z _ I told Mr. Searles that I held a Power of Attorney from ypu to represent you on the Board, he replied, you cannot do that, I said Inmean so far as my vote goes, and incidentally in every¬ thing pertaining to the business, he said I could cast my vote any way I saw fit, or some such remark, meaning that I had the xighlx voice on simply my vote in the Board, but that if any differences arose, there would be trouble, or something of the kind. dAr*. txfayys I do not wish to convey by this letter that tfe had an antagonistic talk, but quite the contrary, it was simply firmness ide 8 .pi/ /Is flsfdtA/ /sc.eHstrtyj-C ^ ./A— 6*- ^ ^ A on both j. -- - _ - , . r spoke of the Shares in Philadelphia, and referred • the item of $992.75 which you said Mr. Searles would have to pay, in order to get the Shares, he asked how many Shares same with it but I could not tell him. Is it 500 7 I al'so referred to the Shares held by Mr. Cochran, which you thought might be obtained for $75.00 oh $100.. He declined absolutely to pay for either of these, and preferred to lose the Shares, therefore I would like to have your views, and will carry out whatever instructions you desire to give tfefi'H' A (jfca.rh.), ffltaufaif; JTtom/Mjtf Ss/tAmi: & /Iffif/’/dom 'eBmv&irp $tf/l/ll7l/ 3T7//on 'arty. %c 3eiu£m6 jf ^ C^wy >fL<^ lo -L ^ vxe, CYi-rAti | t^T £\~~xcCi ^«t«.ji <2- ^C~° >W^t- (Xj^C^r ^^vvV -^r*a- ^ ilo <1x?t ^StvuvO ^Vyv */m^^-‘^*c’ &cJr % a(,o cyv^ir ffij SA x*>. (/*t" — gZ>-c « - f- <=*j JjL^ ^Vf J^Xv^vr /Wn^-w ^yv\x^ nxZtOj ~^ XT*' ^ivCc~^ -^ZJ ^n ^ <9 g*~- ^ * OyZCL . ^ut- ^ ^ ^mV /t'7M.‘7"/t/e< J7f»M,rrK It is necessary that the at o ok should be transferred ten daye before the meeting, and Mr. Searles will advise me in regard to that this afternoon. Neither your Brother nor myself are very much pleased with Mr. DeCastro, he tries to get all out of us he ean, and attempted to sell your Brother an old tin Reoord case for $10.00, which was not worth more than $2.50. We may have an apportunity of turning over to him an order for a lot of Lyrophones for the United States, but he- does not seem to be very anxious for it, or inclined to give your , Brother the benefit of any such order, how¬ ever it is uncertain yet, and X have not made up my mind as to the propriety of it anyhow. Referring; again to the new Board of the Graphophone Com¬ pany, if X get the list in time I will enclose it in this letter, so that if you wish to name anybody in particular, other than thise mentioned on the list, you can cable me, and I will endeavor to have the name substituted, provided the party has stock in hie name on the books, as it will be too late then to make a transfer. Your Metropolitan Rail Road Bonds will hot be delivered Jb/m<§.$%0rlat. MauAni <£fam $k/i/wn'/»t6 sUtAmySlmae* <£? 7'/.7//w/4v> v, Ttecre&iry. until September 1st,. t,:' Mr. A. V. Schneider, called in yesterday, after previously writing us to advise him of the date of the next annual meeting of the Graphophone Company, and signing himself as stockholder. 1 asked him how many Shares he had, and he replied 50, but I finally learned from him, that he was a Brother of Mrs .Henrietta Billing, and represented her, He will no doubt be at the meeting. I received $132,7.8 from Mr. Searles today to pay a few bill 8, he also cashed a Check from Amsinok & Company for $66.65. We have got the order from the American (Tobacco Company for about $200. worth of goods. I am glad to hear from. your Brother that you arrived safely, and all are well. Yours very truly, P. S. Mr. Searles went to Sehnectady on Thursday!,* August 12th, but I have not learned the reason of his going there. THOMAS COCHRAN, President. G. N, MORISON, Secret* OFFICE OF MILLS BUILDING. 4 August 17th, _1897. . S. F. Moriarty, Esq., PERSONAL London, England. My Dear Sir:- Thore has, bean transferred to Mr. Searlss 26,166' Shares of Stock of the International Oraphophone Company, and 4 Shares o». „oh. Stephan p. Moriarty, ' Win.hnop H. Tntu., o..ne. ». Oakl.y, J . MoChesney We enclose- a memorandum of the names of Stockholders whom *e expect to elect Trustees a^'the meeting to be held August 25th. We also give m the names of the Trustees who will be appointed, members of thw Executive Committee. I made up the *>ove lists including the name of your Brother as a member of the Board and Mr. Waterbury on the Execu¬ tive committee, but M*. Sedrlee substituted MoChesney for your Brother and Mr. Oakley for 4* Waterbury on the Executive Committee I did not object tu Mr. Oakley, but I should rather have had someone else instead- of MoChesney, and I did not make antfh objection to your Brother ndt being on the Board as I concluded . that in consideration of the Asendy matter for him, it would be better for him not to be Wn the Board, as he will then be free to -g? any kind of budlhfcfed h4 cleaeee. _ Ilnfeniatimml IkuIbo enclose you a list, of the Stockholders as of date August 14th. If you object to any of the Members 6f the Board, or the Executive Committee, I will endeavor to effect any change you de- • sire, after thh meeting of the 25th. I told Mr. Searlee that you wanted to be on the Board of the Graphophone Company, consequently one share is transferred in your name. Yours very t*uly. G. N. MORISON, Secretary. OFFICE OF MILLS BUILDING. Secretary, My Dear Sir:- Mr. Searles reoeived a letter from Mr. Stollwerok, this morning, dated July 31st, also one of August 3rd, copies of which we enclose. Mr. Searles called my attention to the discouraging tenor of these letters, but I feel that Mr. Stollwerok has a great object in view in writing in this way, and I expressed myself so to Mr. Searles. Mr. Stollwerok also sent a balance sheet, and a fetter in German, which I am having translated, and will send you a copy as soon as it has been reoeived. Mr. Searles stated Upon opening this letter that the statement showed a balance against us, instead of anything being due for profits, but I called his attention to the fact that the German Company charged the amount they paid for patents as a part oost of the maohines, Which is not right, that is I presume they have because I have not yet audited the account. Would it not be better for Mr. stollwerok to be informed 2 Sti'/l/wiV 7m, 77re.i,W/Mtt .stf/TviMr,/ Sfitrecfor; W%n7/m>/t,7/A3k 4 ,77m, that all letters should come first to this office, because I only obtained this letter on account of being present when it was re¬ ceived, and asked for it, otherwise I might not have gotten it, as he has apiies of letters all over hie desk a foot high. We are returning youYto-day some letters from Mr. Munro, whioh came in by last mail. Yours very ruly. Secretary, [ENCLOSURE] Cologne, Huly 31st, 1897, Edison United Phonograph Company, N E W - Y 0 R K. Dear Sirs:- We are in receipt of the telegram of Mr, Moriarty accord¬ ing to the enclosed copy, and we are very aorry that we could not postpone the meeting, as the invitations have been already sent away. The meeting has taken place on the 29th of July, and we have given to all Directors of onr Company an information about your telegram. We hope that you visit may take place as soon as posnihle really our Company is not in a sound condition and something must be done. According to the private letter, which we send you to-day we have had no profit last year, as 10# of the patent-account of the shares which we owe you, must be written off according to the German law. We have even in the first year a loss of 31000 Marks, In the first half year of 1897 we have had a gross-profit of 15000 Marks, but if we count that we must write off 15# on the value of the machines 7800 Marks and 10# per anno on the patent account, we have^another loss of 11000 Marks. You see by this figure, that we must change as soon as possible our contract. We must have full power to sell as many machines as we like without that it in _ necessary that we pay you a further sum cash down. In this case we believe it is possible to make our Company a success. Also we ought to have the right in favor of our Company, of which ybu owe l/3 of the shares to sell also machines to Russia and to Austria from which countries we have often demands. [ENCLOSURE] About all thaae points we hope to be able soon to speak with your vice-president Mr. Moriarty. There is no question that if the English Company, and the German Company will not. be soon in the position to make a profit, the value of all experience, of all patents, and of all work in phonographs on the Continent will be lost and your respective capital is not worth a farthing. Hoping that our future conference will be a sucoosb of our company and also of yours, we are, dear sirs Yours'- veryt ruly, Deutsche Edison Phonographeri Geseiasehaft mit -beschranker Haftung ( Sgd, ) Ludwig Stollwerek. [ENCLOSURE] Cologne, August 3rd, 1897. Edison United Phonograph Company to the hand of John B. Searles Esq. 27 William Street NEW-YORK. My dear Sir:- Enolosed please find a copy of a letter which we have . . „ the Board of justaddressed to Mr. Moriarty being a member of^our Company, we also a copy of our balanoe sheet now approved by our Board of Directors, I specially wish to ppint out, that we have worked very hard in Germany for the success of the Company, but we now come to the conviction that it is impossible at to-days prices to make the Company a success. We therefore again hope that Mr. Moriarty will come over as soon as possible to change our contract, and we surely hope that both wishes will be fulfilled. Principally to khave the right to sell any Phonograph without any further license amount to be paid to the Edison United Company in Germany and furtheron to be able to make business in Austria, Russia, Belgium, and other countries, wherefrom we have so often demands. Hoping that Mr. Moriarty is already on his way to the continent, I am, my dear sir Yours very sincerely: ( Sgd. ) Ludwig Stollwerck Je?m'$.<£>car/a>, Mom&hA eHiem6£yt 7fa> Bmt&n6 jMr&my Mw/h# 7$n//in>/i/7/&7juM/ei Jrn, My Dear Sir:- We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Munro of August 7th, enclosing letter and accounts from Mess. AshurSt, Morris Crisp & Company, copies of which we enclose. I handed these to Mr. Searles, and he was somewhat dis¬ gusted at receiving bills dating back from 1895. The above were mailed to us before you arrived. Yours very truly. Secretary, [ENCLOSURE] [ENCLOSURE] New York, August 20th, 1897. S. F. Moriarty, Esq., London, England. By Dear Mr. Moriarty: - I have just obtained today from Mr. Searles, a letter from the Phonograph Works, giving the prices of machines, but have not had -time to look it over.^5%1^ ^trr A-o-iv-csv**. 'Zyfc- 6. Walso obtained some' of the papers I gave to Mr. Wanamake*/ but not all of them, and Mr. Searles says he has no more, so I pre¬ sume Mr.. Wanamaker could not have returned them all, and I am afraid I will never get them back. The American Graphophone Company have just gotten out a new machine, which is called the "Eagle" Graphophone, and sells for $10.00. 1 wanted, to send one of these to you, but Mr. Searles would not give his consent, therefore I have, asked your Brother if he will not do so. It is a small amount of money, and you should see it, as it is a very good machine, and Edison speaks very highly of it. Mr. Searles thought that you could get' one over there, but the r.eal reason is, he does not want to Spend the money. I was obliged to qualify three men as Stockholders of the Graphophone Company to serve at the meeting on the 28th, as Inspectors of Election, the By-Laws requiring this, but I h«l> no Certificates signed by the President, so he wanted me to make the entry in the transfer book, and post it up in the Stock Ledger, but not to draw the certificates, this of course would appear all ri^hi- at the Stockholders meeting, but if Mr. Cochran, was to die, and he is in a very precarious condition, it might be very awkward for me as well as the Company, because the transfer is dated August 14th, so notwithstanding he objects, I made up my mind to go to Philadelphia and have those Certificates signed and regularly transferred. The three- men who will be appointed at the meeting as Inspectors are A. J. Oxenham, Clarence Polk and C. A. Coughlin. I send you a new list of Stockholders, as the previous list did not contain the above names.. Mr. Searles gave me 17000 Shares of Stock fbr transfer, being the number received from J. & W. Seligman & Co., but I re¬ member that when you received them, there wa3 a certificate for 5 Shares in my. name; this was not . among those handed me by Mr. Searles, do you know what has become of it? I annex two. memoran¬ dums, one showing the. 17000 Shares which are yransferr.sd, . the other the 17000 Shares you received from J* & W. Seligman & Co. . . ..... .. : . • . Yours very truly. [ENCLOSURE] i: List of Stockholders of International Graphophone ( August 14th, 1897. Jl Dwight Nraman, 88 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 1 | Henrietta Billing, Fairview Ave., Clifton Heights, || Cincinnati, Ohio. jj 1511 lot Bigelow, Jr. 44 Wall St., New York City Clerk for S.N. Davis k Co. 4 jj Henry H. Cook, 100 Broadway, Hew York City. 5 jj William Allison Cochran, Philadelphia, Pa. i || Bather U, Cochran, Philadelphia, Pa. 3 jj Thomas Coohran, Union League Club, Phila, Pa. 3 || C. A. Coughlin, 87 William St., Hew York City. 103 104 106 106 107 108 110 ! Hadden, Philadelphia, Pa. . as 1501 375 119 & 1751 Zb j| B. P. Cheney, 40 Court Square, Boston, Mass, jj Thomas Nolan, Philadelphia, Pa. C. S. Draper, Saginaw, Michigan. Ludwig Gottfried Dyes jj Clarence Folks, 87 William St., Hew York City. W. Morton Orinnell, 87 William St., New York City. Johann Friedrich 6.1 und John H. Hall, Hartford, Conn. Louis Harkothal, Otto Wilhelm Hoffmann Carl Hagen, N. Willis James, 11 Cliff St., New Yoi-k.City, Honi’y G. Marqusnd, 160 Broadway, New York City. Darius 0. Mills, 15 Broad St., New York City. Mrs/ B. M. Maxwoll, 168 Fifth Ave., New York City. Bertram Johann Melchers George N. Morison, 89 West 3Kth St., New York City. Stephen F. Mori arty, London, England. George II. SCO 8100 700 840 1500 1500 1000 25 / ■3 ±~7 /■ [ENCLOSURE] 110 111 134 135 136 137 162 165 167 16S 169 170 171 171 187 188 182 182 183 184 184 184 185 190 194 j| Friedrich Ludwig Moller Sr. 10 |J« T. Me Chesney, 1 George W. Oakley, 27 Wiliam St., Now York City. 1 l|A. J. Oxenhom, 27 William fit., Hew York City ' 1 g Elian 1. Platt, 49 Broadway, New York City. 400 || Thomas C. Platt, 49 Broadway, Now York City. 350 jl Franz Bernhand Pfeifer, g |!Charle8 V?. Parsons, V50 Jesse Seligman, 15 Broad St., New York City 1 || John E. Henries, 117 Wall St., New York City. 27659 || J. Stroof, 100 j| Joseph J. Schmidt, 18-20 Broad St., New York City. 500 | Charles H. Salmon, Philadelphia, Pa. 300 j Arthur B. Xwombly, 15 Broad St., Now York City. 1500 I. P. Truitt, Philadelphia, Pa. 300 j Winthrop M. Tuttle, 27 William St., New York City. 1 || Frederick Strauss, 15 Broad St., Now York City. 644 |j. (1. SchmidtlapF, Cincinnati, Ohio. 300 j| James M. Waterbury, 69 South St., How York City. 250 Waterbury k Marshall Co., 69 South St., New York city 1500 Thomas B. Wanamaker, oor: 13th ft Market St's., Philadelphia, Pa. William Woodji Cor: Springarden ft 22nd St's., Philadelphia, Pa. Johann Georg Wolde, K. Williams, Jr. Philadelphia, Pa. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Pa. Howard E. Young, 318 Cheatnut St., Phila, Pa. Woldomar Alfred Zembseh, 501 1 10 300 1000 334 10 i j j J'OCPOG- [ENCLOSURE] INTERNATIONAL GRAPHOFHONE COMPANY. ■Memorandum of Certificates representing the number of Shares obtained from J. & W. Se liftman & Co., handed Mr. Moriaon for transfer by Mr. Searles. INTERNATIONAL GRAPHOPHONE 00. List of Stock given Mr. S. F. Moriarty by Mr. Henry Seligman, January 11th, 1897. C. C. Howard, 2,500 Patrick Vaughan, 2, 500 Henry Seligman, 1,000 James Seligman, 1,000 Isaac N. Seligman, 1,000 D. J. Seligman, 1,000 Jesse Seligman 1,000 Frederick Strauss, 7.000 17,000 Shares. C. C. Howard, -2,500 Patrick Vaughan, 2,500 Henry Seligman, 1,000 James Seligman - .1,000 Isaac N. Seligman 1,000 D. J, Seligmaniji 1,000 Jesse Seligman, 1,000 Frederick Strauss, 6,995 G. N. Mori son. 5 17,000 Shares. S.S'mr/ea, 7hiidrnt, JHomaajdt Sebum 7&7filomon( <$«a>Ue*>y. 37/lffrrnfy, '&* %*«£»U> 'Stetiory SUnetox 70,,;t/t™/iJ//u‘/uM/e; J7cm, 27 WILLIAM STREET, /& S. F. Moriarty, Esq., .London, England. My Dear Mr. Moriarty: - We enclose a copy of a letter received this morning from Mr. Searles, relating to the Manufacturing Rights, has been formally served upon the Company. Yours very truly, O' Secretary. [ENCLOSURE] August 20th, 1897. Edison United Phonograph Co., 27 William St. NT. Y. Gentlemen: - Please take notice- that 1. hold and assignment of all the right title and interest of the Edison Phonograph Works and Thos.,j Edison in .certain contracts. made by them with your Company,, the first bearing date Deo. 19th, 1892', and relating to an assignment of the English rights -of manufaeturef the other bearing date Jan. 19th, 1S96j -relating -to German rights. Any payments which may- be due the Company under these contracts are henceforth to be. made to me. Yours truly. (Sgd. ) Jno. E. Searles. I send you a hearty welcome* On the other hand I am very sorry to inform you, that I can not come to londonl My brother- Peter, senior of our house, has just gone for 4 weeks in his holidays, and of course I can not leave our office alone here in Cologne* — Have therefore the kindness to visit me in cologne, but I must mention^that I have already this week two important visits, and also in the beginning of next ' week, but from Wednesday of next week, I could spend some days with you in Cologne* Hoping to receive good news from you, I am in the meantime my dear Mr. Mori arty Names to be proposed for Trustees at Stockholder Meeting August 25th, 1897. 1 Mr. John E. Searles. " S. F. Moriarty. * X. 0. Platt. * 9. N. Mori son. *' Mnthrop M. Tuttle. " George W. Oakley. * J. T. MeChesney. " Thomas Dolan. * James M. Waterbury I * Henry H. Cook. * Henry G. Marquand. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE n John E. Searles ! * T. 0. Platt. 1 * G. N. Morison. I * G. W. Oakley. I * Winthrop M. Tuttle. I THOMAS COCHRAN, PRESIDENT. ' G. N. MORISON, SECRETARY. OFFICE OF S. P. -'Moriartjr, Esg., Vioe^Prepidant, Jtondon, Englaiid. Dear 3ir:- At A meeting Of. thd Board of Trustees of this Company, held August 27th, 1897 , yOu ftere unanimously elected Vice-President of this Company to serve- for the ensuing year. Vows very truly. Secretary. Tint*. LONDON AUGUST 27 &£ UtLEGltA M received, “Via Commercial Cables," i THOMAS COCHRAN, PRESIDENT. G. N. MORISON, SECRETARY. OFFICE OF MILLS BUILDING. cJiw. — August_27-.th,~-1897-»- _ -/if _ S. F. Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir:* The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Internet ionl Graphophone Company, was held on Wednesday, August 25th, 1897. There were present Messrs. John E. Searles, G. N. Morison Winthrop M. TuttlS, G. W. Oakley, Clarence Polks, J. T. McChesney, A. J. Oxenham, C. A. Coughlin, and A. P. Sohneider, who presented proxies from Mrs. Henrietta Billing and Mr. J. G. Schmidtlapp. Eleven Trustees were elected to serve fop the ensuing year, as jfollows':- Mr. John E*- Searles. ", Thomas c. Platt. ." Henry Gw Marquand, * James M. Waterbury. " Winthrop M* Tuttle. ■!* J. T. McChesney. Mr. Stephen P. Moriartjr. " Thomad Dolan. ■ Heiu^y H, Cook. * G. N. Morison. " George W. Oakley. There were 27,674 votes oast representing the sane number of shares. The Inspectors Oath and Certificate of eleotion were filed August 26th, with the County Clerk, Mr. Sohneider declined to vote for Mrs. Billing and Mp. Schmidtlapp, A meeting of the Board of Trustees was called upon the order of four Trustees, Messrs. Searles, Morison, Tuttle and Oakley and was held on the 27th day of August at 11 o’clock, A. M. MILLS BUILDING. cfc-ta The following gentlemen were elected OffioerB of the Com pany to serve for the ensuing year. Mr. John E. Seerles, President. " Stephen F, Moriarty Vice-President. 0 G. N. Morison, Secretary. • Winthrop M. Tuttle, Treasurer. The President then appointed the following gentlemen aa members of the Executive Committee: in addition to himself. Mr. T. c. Platt. * G. N. Mori son, " Winthrop M, Tuttle. * George W, Oakley* There were present at this meeting fit fcfustees, Messrs. Searles, Platt, Morieon, Tuttle, Oakley and Mcf^esney. Yours very truly, 4*1, / o t •Sedrat^y. P.S. Mr. Schneider said that Mrs. Billing had given him 50 Shares of her stock, and I will transfer the Certificate to-morrqw. New York, August 27th, 1897, S. P. Moriarty, Esq,, PERSONAL. London, England, My Dear Mr. Moriarty: - X felt to-day at the meeting that verything was not all right, Mr. Searles was inclined to be cool to me, and he was everything to McChesney, and patted him on the shoulder, and when • Mr. Platt asked him about the prospects for the Company, he spoke in such a way, as to indicate to Mr. Platt that he was far from sanguine, and that to use his words" he had only had one letter., from Moriarty, "gluing the impression that he should have had three or four, although he was obliged afterwards to admit that you had only just gotten over there. I am coming to the pith of this story. You know I told you before you left that Mr. Searles accused you of being interest- ed in the Graphophone people to the detriment of the United, well he referred to that again three or ibur days after you left to me in his office, and I did not intend to bother you with a recital of it, but a circumstance happened to-day, which marie me decide to do so. ' -■■.■■■■■■■. .■ After Mr. Searles left the meeting, Mr, MoChe sne y remain- ed, and said to me, "how is it they only seize Phonographs abroad and not Graphophone s » Now this explains what is rankling Mr. _ , ZJuL Searles and^source from which it came. You remember you seized some machines (Phonographs) ship¬ ped to Werner and the money also, well, I conclude that Tewksbury or Gilmore have told MoChesney, and he has reported to Mr. Searles that they only seized Phonographs abroad, hence the impression, that Mr. Moriarty seizes Phonographs, J>ut allows the Graphophone people to sell all they want . TO-day at the meeting, Mr. Searles handed your letter of August ISth, and Mr. Munro's letter of August 7th to McChesney to read. I do not object' to. that, becuase it referred to prices that he was to see aboi,t at thp Works, but it was the way it was done, and Mr. Searles paid very .little attention to what I had to say on the subject, and would not look at me while talking, addressing himself entirely to MoChesney. You know a man’s manner tell&the story very often, and I should not have spoken of this, but feel pleased at being able to place the cause- of the coolness that has existed. How disagreeable it is to have a man like McChesney try¬ ing to make me commit myself. I wrote you that Mr. Searles dir/not wish to ship you one of the new "EAGLE" Graphophones, and you*Brother seemed disinclined to do so, so I thought I would buy one and pay for it out of my own pocket, which I have done. It goes forward on the Steamship “UMBRIA" sailing August 28th, and is packed in case No. 3. It cost me $10. for the Graphophone and $2.00 for the little, case that goes with it, less 15# discount; or $10.20 nett. XxmsRxssiksdxta I am writing you a separate letter about a sale of Grapho phones, as you may think it worth while to show the letter. A man from some Banking House -hear here, called to inquire, about the standing of the Columbia Phonograph Company, and said he had a cable inquiry from abroad, and I conclude it might emanate from some of the parties you are dealing with. He went to see Easton, or at least said he would write him anyhow. Mr. Tewksbury is in Chicago, you know the Chicago Talking machine Company is there, and I wonder what he is doing. Yours very truly, P.S. I hope you have no objections to my nominating you as Vice- President to-day of the I. G. Co. . 1 thank you for your letter of August 18th, and for the copy of the letter. to Mr. Searles, I would not -8Nf*. seen it, had you not y^-/ // S. <§e, TfivatrJtitttt J7t0m/M)J$ Sx/hwtt .Q 72;7?i/wt/)v, $ecrr/-morrow morning, . v JkAtf&$carleA Uotu/mt, fie&m & Ti.Vlore/ioti/, Seemtan/. T?/tmbrfyJ&y3r.Mn6 . Muon/ Erector/ 70ndnft7M^Mx J&mumK London, England# Dear Sir:- GENERAL LETTER AND ADDITION TO POPE. Referring to your cable that machines must be shipped this week, I did all I could to harttet&t shipped at once, but the do best I could^was a; promise by Mr. Gilmore for next week, and it will go forward then, I hope on Wednesdays steamer. After this Mr. Searles Sent MoChesney out to the Works, and he was unable to accomplish any more, although Me. MeChesney said to me, that he had asked Mr. Gilmore to forward the machine at once, as a personal favor to him.McChesney. Type 3 machine is not completed, and I cannot find out when it will be, it seems indefinite, and I suppose they don't know themselves, but we ought to have a cheap Phonograph at once. We hope the Multiplex will arive safely, as we have endeavored to paok it with great care. Enclosed please find a memorandum of. a few additions to our code, which you may find serviceable, the first four I think I have advised you of previously. S. 71,7/famon', 3tcrcfwt/. .77c<«. fo//ir$.$/:ct/r7k), 77mi,Ant 37umaaj& Se&imt , dtc/i/tort/JF/P/lma rfy, ?& 7&mii»Uc Mviton/ 'SHnetDrf The Code Book, which we were advised that the Cable Company were expect**oto issue, proves to be a failure, it is only a little social book. * Yours very truly, Secretary. /w&<$ewteA MaUui JZmuujft fietfam & TMfamiom c&enAuy Mmu>n,mmto* 7$t,t/m>/i,7M.’/iMs JW, S. F. Moriarty, Ksq., London, England. Dear Sir:- A Mr, D. Carleton, Secretary and Treasurer of the William & Carleton Co. of Hartford, Conn. Root Beer and Druggist's Special¬ ties, wanted us to supply him with a cheap Phonograph, one that would co st Five or Six Dollars, that he could give away to his customers, and advertise his specialties. He seemed to have plenty of ready money, and as we could not fill such an orderf^ he has ordered, so he says, from the American Graphophone Company 400 of their new §10. Graphophones, which they have quoted to him at §5,00 each. He went through their factory in' Bridgeport, and he says it is the busiest place in that town, they have more orders than they can fill, and would not permit him to order 40 machines at an advanced price. and agree to refund the difference between the §5.00 quotation and the price charged for the 40, if he afterwards con¬ sented to place an additional 360. You see therefore they are perfectly independent and that means “their business is a fact. Mr. Carleton will take several thousand of thse machines 73. 7l.77forok»i/, Secretary. 7/£,d/r,V/a77tfae/,:l.‘fc 37 WILLIAM STREET. if his experiment proves successful, and as he is the pioneer in his section of country in this sort of thing, I have no doubt he will be. Your 8 very truly. Secretary, New-York, August 28th, 1897, . S. ' P, Moriarty, Esq., PERSONAL. : London, England, My Dear Mr, Moriarty:'-. Mr. Schneider attended the meeting of the Stockhold¬ ers of the Graphophone Company, and presented proxies for Mrs, Henrietta Billing and Mr, J. G. Schmidtlapp, as stated before he did not vote, but he asked a good many questions about the Company, the principle one of which, was, as to what had become of addition¬ al money for the §5,000,000. of Stock over the amount of $250,000. shown on our reports, and. what. was paid for the patents, he said Mr. Seligman told him the Patents cost $500,000, Mr. Searles did not seem to know how to talk to him and referred him to me, although I took. hold of the matter myself any¬ how, ard explained to him, that the whole stock was issued to Mr. Cochran, for Patents and Patent Rights and Contracts, and what he did with it. had not cane to the Company’s knowledge. When he pressed for fuller informa tion, I said that we could not go beyond that, and that the first reoords of this Company showed the payment for the Patents, etc., and that is where the business commenced. He thought the stockholders should have been called' together and th condition of the business explained to them. I said I had nade ' Mrs. Billing acquainted with it, and so I have, both by letter and verbally, and that the stockholders generally were conversant with the situation; All this talk was at the meeting. He asked Mr. Searlos if he controlled the other Shares of the United Company outside of what the Graphophone Company owned, and he replied that he suspected he could. Mr. Searles said that a private arrangement was nade with Mr. Cochran, by the subscribers or something to that effect. Yours very truly. P. S. I am sorry to say that Mr. David Seligman died last, night. New Yorj My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- ' Your telegrap asking for £100. for Patents came to hand Monday morning, but Mr. Searles being out of town on Monday, as usual, I coUld do nothing until today. Of course I did not know the cause of the urgency of the cable, more than is shown by the Schedule I have of the Monthly taxes on Patents, which for September was £74.9,6 , but I explain¬ ed to Mr. Searles that it was for working of the Patents in addi- thSt WB had not remitted enough money last month, and „ °" th! London Office from distant countries*^ Mr. Searles objected to remitting any more money for Patents, or in fact to the other side, as he thinks you should be .able to collect enough from goods we are shipping, and from the Companies, etc., therefore as you know how difficult it is to get money at times, you will appreciate the situation when I state that Mr. Searles refused three or four times to give me’ any money, but I stuck to it and finally got a check for the amount. - He^.thinl'3„he, should not be called upon to send you any more money for London Expenses and Patents, and stated that you should have paid that 1,100, yourself &but _ it is not worth while to go into any further ddtail. I^o^.ho}vevert,you will not. .have _ occasion to ask for any more money for Patents, as I said I would not ask for any more for some time, becuase I see that the Patent taxes for the months of October, November and December, are very little, outside of any working that may be necessary, and you will be able probably to collect from the German Company, their account, of which $1165,64, is due to this office, besides the bills for Blanks, we have shipped and the moiety we will ship in a week or so, also for the order for Cylinders just, shipped and the Spring Motor Phonograph with a few Cylinders, which we will ship you on Saturday, this will make in all, a total of nearly $1900. which will be available to you for Patent and other expenses. Of course you realize why it is that Mr. Searles objects to sending any more money abroad, he feels that he is putting expressed expressed' money into a"hopper"as he ex^’^ss, it, and 'when the business, looks a little more settled and reassuring, there will not be the same difficulty. . In regard to the letter of Mr. Munro of August 7th, I showed it to Mr. Searles, and while he objected to filling this kind of an order, a3 it is equivalent to his advancing that much money, he did not positively refuse, after I explained it to him, therefore I have concluded to order the goods, say 1 Spring Motor Phonograph, running 14 to 16 records, and 30 Musical Records, as it will give you that much additional and the Company can make $45. P. s. I said to Mr. Searles in reply to his remark that he had not had any results from you yet, that he need not expect to, as it was simply impossible for any man to accomplish what you went there fory in a week or two weeks, and that he need not expect any¬ thing for at least a month; still while I said this, I would be very glad to have some good news before that time. S. F, Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir;- Referring to your letter of August 7th headed "GENERAL", I have explained to Mr. Searles the difficulty in connection with the clock-motor Phonograph, and the discount of 35# which the United States Phonograph Company gives us on these machines, and the necessity of our ordering them from the United States Phonograph Company instead of from the Works, therefore he has requested me to hold this order over until McChesney can communicate with Gilmore in the .matter of prices, etc; he wil} see him on Monday, August 30th. Yours very truly. Secretary. 27 Wl LLIAM STREET, S. F. Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir:- Mr. Searles sent you a letter by this mail from Gabriel Kaiser, 27 Rue du Chateau-d'Eau, Paris, a copy of which Mr. Searles showed me this morning. We enclose a oopy of the letter from the Phonograph Works enclosing it to Mr. Searles, and I inquired of Mr. Sohermerhorn, by telephone, Mr. Gilmore not being at the Works, what discount they or the National Company would give on such an order, he re¬ plied he thought about 40#, this is 40* on twenty cents, which would nett 12 cents, but he said he was not familiar with that part of the business, and said I had better see Mr. Gilmore, so !• merely mention this for what it is worth Yours very truly. Secretary, o X & P.S. Mr. Gilmore is in town to-day, and Mr. Sohermerhorn thought he was going to see Mr. McChesney. sy/^ -r a,- [ENCLOSURE] EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS, Orange, N.J. Au g. 30, 1897. John E. Searles, Esq., Pres. 117 Wall St., New York. Dear Mr. Searles: I enolose herewith communication that we received several .days ago from Mr. Gabriel Kaiser, 27 Rue du Chateau-d’Eau, Paris, Prance, asking us to ship him C.O.D. 20 barrels of Blanks cylinders and for quotations on 40 barrels. You will see that this party advertises himself as a dealer in our phonographs, but I have never heard of him. However, the fact that his inquiry is for quite a quantity of blanks leads me to refer the communication to youy so that you can see the character of communications that we receive from time to time from, abroad. There is a rough trans¬ lation attached to the letter. I have been in the habit of re¬ ferring communications of this kind to the office on William St., d and very often we have received a second and even a third communi¬ cation from the same party, from which I judge that they have not ' been' answered. I would there fore like to know whe the r it is your desire' that' I refer these letters to the William St. office here¬ after, to Mr. MoChesney, or to yourself. I realize that you are a very busy man, and I know that you do not want to be bothered . with small details of this kind, and J would like therefore, to have your instructions. Yours very truly, : :: E, Gilmore," general Manager. ' My Dear Mr. Moriarty: New York, September 3rd, 1897. Your personal letter of. AugUBt 25th, is Just re¬ ceived, and I have sent you, by this* mail, all the. information that I have been able, to secure, so, far, .in regard to priceB. . ... .. I It is an unsatisfactory way of doing business, through Mr. Searlea, and by him through MoChesney, and his dealing with the Works, especially as he cannot understand the whole situation, and it causes delay, however we can't help it,- but when we get going a little, we will no doubt have matters so arranged, that if MoChesn^, \ goes to the Works, he will report to me, and I will direot his movements, or else attend to the whole matter myself, as I have been obliged to do several times over the •phone". The only man who can run such things as this satisfaetor- -the Secretary, and of course advising Mr, Searles; antT re¬ ceiving his suggestions. ' I 'think I can get the whole matter in shape, little .by little. You know the Phonograph Works, are really tired of giving us quotations, withc|ut order8vand I thir* Mr. Searles refleots. this feeling also, so that as soon jet to doing a iittl| business, and e,an show some orders, we will have no difficulty about getting anything we want. In regard to your suggestion in regard to the Board of the I.G.Co, I had already submitted these nameB to Mr. Searlea, and he agreed to them, as I have already advised you, although there were a few dummies put on, these however can be changed, when it is desirable to do so. I will certainly aid. your brother in every way in my power in regard to his agency, but he now seema disinclined to take it up, unless we can get better prices for the 16 Cylinder machine, and the "M“ Type, however he may change his mind, although it is discouraging to find that other people can buy the 16 Cylinder machine about as cheap as he oan, and the whole story is that we have to make a start, and until we do we cannot accomplish much in the way of good prices, but he does not look upon it in this light ■and % my own idea is, that if he were to get out his circular matter, and commence to work up the business, other things would follow. Your letters always encourage me, and I am glad to re¬ ceive them, and I feel sure of the success of the Company. I think you are under a misapprehension in regard to the American Tobaeoo Company, the goods were not for South America, but for South Africa, although I quite agree with you, that) a good South American business ooulfCbe worked up, if your Broker, will . get at it* - <2$ * exS ,<£cs6C4U- ■Wl£td£ T$ /^jrirrtj &&*z-iec*-v*LAs ^Z&caJs faj4 £*tsO . . rU^y/ry^, Uy Zkou/tmf, 3.7i7/foMmv *«4™ \m^/i/l/t^777/iffnnrty,^»Zk wMc/e>v(7>.<$ca/r/eA 7?w<(/0nf< '^tf/i/icri/^FT'/tonarti/, ?iv, 0. 7li7?lmv/i/»is, <§cerctwrt/. %$n Seven hundred end Fifty (750) "U* phonograph*, to be fhmiaheft at m Of thifty asOhinOi per m*, th* prttf «m b« twonty [ENCLOSURE] Providing you will give u* an Order for not Isbb than One Thbueand (1,000) *M» Phonographs, to be furnished at the rate of !criL^2LMa^ilwa per w<>e*> *¥ will be twenty seven and 65/400 <#27. 65) dollars eaoh net. [ENCLOSURE] % sight and 50/LOO ($27.50) dollars eaoh, net. Providing you will give us an order for not less than Twelve Hundred and Fifty (1,250) *M* phonographs, to be -fumsihed ®' at the rate of fifty (50) maohineS per week, the prioe will be twenty six and 95/LOO ($26.95) each, net. Providing you will give us an order for not leas than Two Hundred and Fifty (250) »C* Phonographs, to be furnished at the rate of ten (10) machines per week, the price will be forty f live rand 40/^00 ($45.40) dollars eaoh, net. Providing you will give us an order for not less than Five Hundred (500) "0" phonographs, to be furnished at the rate of twenty (20) machines per week, the price will be forty two and 75/L00 ($42.75) dollars each, net. Providing you will give us an order for not less than Seven hundred and Fifty (750) "0" phonographs, to be furnished at the rate of thirty (30) machines per week, the price will be Forty and 90/100 ($40.90) dollars each, net. Providing you will give us an order for not less than One Thousand (1,000) •C* phonographs, to be furnsihed at the rate of forty (40) maohines per week, the pries will be thirty nine and 55/L00 ($39.55) dollars eaoh, net. Providing you will give us an order for not less than Twelve hundred and fifty (1,250) *C* Phonographs, to be furnished at the rate of Fifty (50) machines- per week, the price will be thirty eight and 45/100 ($38*45) dollars each, net. The machine s referred to in the las^Tparagraph of your letter is something that we are not at all familiar with, and if suoh a machine is contemplated, it is, so far as we know, still in an experimental state, and we are not ^in a position to give even approximate figures on same. Yours very truly, W. TJ. Ollraore, General Manager. (Sgd.) [ENCLOSURE] Prices paid for the Slot Phonographs furnished Deutsche Edison Phonographen Gesellsehaft, Cologne.,* ■'"S* Phonograph 29.50 Cartage from Orange .25 •S* Cabinet. 15.75 i'eaB^CE5.43 Ferriage. -10 «S* Mechanism. 12.25 The Cabinets above were obtained from E. Jordan, and had round German Silver Tops. The Slot Mechanisms were obtained from the United States Phonograph Company, Newark, 1 New York, September 7th, 1897. My Dear Mr. Morlarty:- I thank you for your personal letter of August 28th, en¬ closing oopy of letter written Mr. Searles, dated August 27th, be¬ cause these letters would not come to me if you did not send them You- are really mistaken in regard to the No. 2 Type of machine beiflg in our of flies, it never came here, and in fact never left the Works, as I have explained. The ■HOME'* type of Phono¬ graph was in our office, and we shipped- it, on August 6th, but I hope all this will be cleared up by shipping the machine next Saturday, as I do not think they can disappoint us again. . I will not cable you to-day in regard to prices, as nyi- letter of August 20th, must have reached you just after the present- letter of August 28th was mailed by you. I wrote again on the 4th of September, very fully in regard to prices, and I do not V think we can get anything more in that way from Edison, unless we show him some orders. It io my private opinion, that the Phonograph Works. do ' not care for us to send in any orders, as they would like to work aH the business through Tewksbury, and the Chicago Talking Machine Co., and that rerminds me, Tewksbury went to Chicago, as I wrote •you a short time ago, and it would not surprise me at all, if it were for the purpose of making arrangements with that Company, to fill all foreign orders, instead of that business being conducted here as formerly. Tewksbury you know is now connected with the Phonograph Works, or rather with the National Phonographs Company, and in¬ directly with the Works, so that it would not be safe for him to fill foreign orders himself. I notice you mention Tewksbury in ydur letter to Mri Searles, " I hope you will send me a copy of the "Edison-Bell Report, Which you expect to send to Mr. Searles. 1 ought to have alBo their Ealance Sheet for 1895, as that year ip missing on our files. Your letter to Mr. Searles, is >very interesting, and you have the business so well in hand, that I do not think anything prevent your making a great success over there. ....... • Yours very truly. .can /i/n/$.<§ca/r/a), 7?mii>/en6 <§fe/t/wrl/3~7/tu2m6 s/dvutori/Stirtdor' 7/£, */„„/„ M £//4 Z^.. r 37 WILUAM STREET, S. F. Moriarty, Esq. , London, England. Dear Sir:- I am aorry we will not be able to ship the Type "No. 2" Phonograph before Saturday, September 11th. Mr. Bilmore eta tea that ha has been unable to get it readi in time for the Steamer sailing, Wednesday, September 8th. ^ We do not see why it should taka so long to put the maehine together, unless there was something radically wrong, he atated that he had taken it all apart, and that since putting it together again, he found some "bug" in it which they desire to •orreet, but we do not know how mush to believe of what they say, . ,, . . c£o at all events they cresset1 anxious to show us' any favor, but I thin/c it will certainly go on Saturday. We never had this "No. 28 Type in our office in New York, it never left the Works, as I explained in a former letter, but we had a No. 1 type here, called the "HOME" Phonograph, which ws shipped on the "LUCAN1A* with you, at the sane time we shipped thi 16 oyilhder clock-motor Maehine, and we hope you have received them ife hefted ifr*. 'Ijiiwbrd tfoiaiT#ds--the list price on the +u&h6 J/tomMjd (fidio/t: & 7&77forf/>0W Secretary. $(i/Jmp3r7?/*il them to use at as cheap a rate as the National Could fOi* ab email an OrdfS^ and re- _L requesting Mr. Searles to canoel the order, we fswerly sent No. 393, and to send them an order on the National Company fbr the good-S I said to Mr. Searles, that we could not do that, as we had a contract with the Phonograph Works to manufacture for us, aid that by doing such a thing as that, we were praotieally ignoring our contraot, and that the prices to be charged us by the Works under our contract, were not dependent upon the. size of our order, excepting aofar as the actual ooet was concerned, as it was supposed to be a running Works, when the eontraet was made, and still is, and that we should have the benefit on any order we sent them, of the cost price to the Works^on ail the business they do. I hope you get my idea, I mean that if the Works does $50,000. worth of business in a year, or say $5,000, in a month, and we Bhould during the month send in an order for 500 cylinders or even 5 cylinders, they should be billed to us, at the average price of the whole 5,000, At leaser if the Works receive a small order from us, I do not interpret our oontract to mean that they can single out that little order, and charge us a big price for it, claiming that it i cost more to make a few thanj^t does many, but rather^we <*iould hajre the benefit in prioe^Jvthe whole business of the Works, ^2?^" ' works however evidently do not view the contract in this light, anglgive us the alternative of turning the order over to the National Company. “bJ,“t ln «>»• «■ to Know ho. to. in turning o„.r ord.ro K.tlonu o.„p„, ,„r good, tur.d at ,h. Phonograph dhrh.-S? latter ov.r to m. 1„ hi. om.o. ..ia.ntlp .ith th. id., that „ ooald ooo.de to hr. Mta»*V r.ono.t, ana ,he National °<»P«y i„.t..d „r th. Worha, until , „all,a hi. 1’3“ / ”"14 «n?*»o it .-dh-dLo^i* ordering goods inquantities from the Phonograph Works, by the en¬ closed copy of a letter, I received from the Work., dated 3ept.mb.r 18th, 1897, in reply to my letter to them of September nth. My purpose was to find out, what the National Company wer billing their Minks for in this country, which I thought would be of useful information to you, therefore without consulting Mr. Searles, I wrote; the letter and obtained a reply. I hmded Mr. Searles a copy of this letter this morning, and said to him that the National Company had a very greet advantage over us, in being able to piae. .ueh an order, and eould undersell anybody, ourselves included, but hi. reply wa. -but so can we as soon as we get the orders^ CAN YOU NOT 01 VB MB A LBOAL OPINION IN REGARD 10 TUB SUBJBOT MATTBR OP BUS LBTTBR, because it is my opinion that a serious error would have been committed, if we had written the Asl'UJ rMryaflJh oancel our contract or hurt us in any way, it would at least estab¬ lish a precedent from which we could not raoover, and little by little, our contract would become null and void. Ur. searlec reoeived another letter, whieh was addressed to the Bdieon United Phonograph Company, Mr. John B. Seattes, P^aident, from Mr. oilmore of the Phonograph Works, am came to ou/a Ihis letter Mr. Saarles read in my presence, but did not show it to me or tell ms of ita contents, but explained that it was in reply to a matter, he had written Mr. oilmore. I enclose you a copy of the bi;i we reoeived from the National Phonograph Company for the 5 Phonographs referred to in this letter. 1 received a letter WhiohMwae sent ua by Mr. McCheaney, and addressed to him by the Phonograph Works, a copy of whloh I enolose, as well as a oouple of the circulars referred to. You will notice it is dated September 13th, but was not received by us until the 20th, on account of Mr. MeCheeney belie absent no d&ubt. Mr. Scarlet made no mention to m of having received your letter of September 10th to him, copy of which you sent me. aw ry ctc,'eC — D Referring to your personal letter to me of September 10th it oertainly must have been very exasperating to have the VTeneh people there, and not lave the No. 2 Type to chow them, but «U of this thing comes down to one simple fast, that «s this business is to-day, there is but one mai) connected with it here that should be f in personal oonmonieation with the Phonograph Works and everything .1.. «ww with th. bu.ln.s., and l thla. ,B„. with in that opinion, namely that the writer cannot keep up with all the detail, when he has to get it from second and third partloa and then only from reading over a letter? an^m^n^^he Company's reply to which , $£ may never see, but I WILL DO THE VERY BEST I CAN under all the o iroumetanoes, and you will be able to dictate whatever policy you wish in such matters as soon as you shall have completed the re-organization of the foreign Compan¬ ies, and have collected some money and orders. YA* remember we sent you a copy of a French letter, or rather Mr. Searlee sent you the original ordering 20 barrels of Balnks, eto.well we had an inquiry the other day from Oeaser * Co., of this City for Blanks, which I declined to fill unless they could toll us where the goods were to go, and this afternoon Mr. Ceaser came into our office, but did not give his name at first, he made an inquiry for prices for say 2,000 blanks, which I could not wuotw him, ae he deo/ined to give us the destination of the goods, •r he said he did not know, but in such a way, ae to make^believo they were for foreign shipment, at this Juncture your Brother spoke up, and said that if I could not fill the order he could, politely you knew, and told the man, who I then learned wae Mr. Ceaser that he wenld let him know to-morrow at 12 o' dock, about prices. Xhe point of this is, that in thinking it over, I have come to the conclusion that this might be a trick on the part of | the French people, to find hut whether they could purohaee their goods outeide of our Company, or whither we would ship goods to their territory from this office, and while I may be entirely wrong in this view, I thought it was just as well to let you know about it. Your Brother eaid that if he wanted the goods for America he could supply them, but I think it is beet that he should not speak up in this way, when wA have an inquiry, ae two prople are sure to make a muse of a thing, and I will speak of it to him to-morrow, therefore please do not write him anything in connection with it, because I do not write you for that purpoee. , it iBsimplej that you may traoe the matter, if you desire to. Oeassr & Gompmy have a big House in Paris. Mr. 8earleB remarked that yourletter about oolleoting the German Account, did not mention sending any money on. 1 do not believe that Tewksbury has severed his conns e- tion with the Works or Edison, at least he seems to still go out there, and his late prioe-lists speak of foreign export which was suppressed for a little while, a supply of thse, I will try at* send yon. I believe it is simply to take some of the responsibility from the Works, and to enable him to continue his export business. Years very truly. [ENCLOSURE] New York Sept: 11, 1897, Edi eon Phonograph Works, Orange, N. JT* • Dear Sira:- Yon will remember that you kindly sent ue, a thort time ago, an inquiry for 20 to 40 Barrels of Blanks, We would be very much obliged if you would let ue know, at what price you would fill an order for suoh a quantity in America, or at what pried the National Company would fill each an If you can give ue this information, we will be raueh obliged, . ' Your a very truly,, (Sgd.) 0. N. Mori son, Secretary /• [ENCLOSURE] RDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS Orange, N. J# Sept* 18, 1897. WdiBon United Phonograph o o*, 27 William St., New York. Dear Sira:- Your letter of the 11th inat. «a„ » duly to hand* I give you below prices LI SI quoted by the National Co* DISOOUN*. on Elenka* H»I* 30 oenta. 1 Bbl. 40 % 18 oenta eaeX 20 * 1 * 42 1/fc % 11 1/2 e . . a 20 ■ 10 • 48 % 11 • * 20 • 20 • 47 1/fe % 10 i/to •■v • 20 • 40 * 50 % 10 • * Of eourso X know that the first question you will ask now is, how you ean sell blanks at the asms prise in 40 barrel lots at 10 eent8 and make any profit, andmour answer to this ia, that the National Phonograph Co. give us a firm order for 100,000 blanks at pns time, and we pro esed to make them up at a /ower prise than we quoted you, of 10 sent** Of course, if you will giwe us a fins order for the quantity of blanks, to be carried in stoek for your account, we should be very glad to make ybu * further concession* [ENCLOSURE] EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS, Orange, N.J. Sept. 13, 1897, J. T. MeOhesney, Esq., o/o The Birkbeok Co., New York. Dear Sir:- I enoloae herewith eix oopiea of the oiroular' letter recently issued by the National Go*. advising that Mr. 0. E. Tewksbury has severed hie connection as General Sales Agent. Z hew have also sent six oopiea of this oiroular to Mr. Searlee, direct. Yours very truly, ISgd.) W. E. Gilmore, WKG/iww General Manager. Eno.-G. [ENCLOSURE] Orange, N. J. Sept 18 - 1897. When referring to this bill Edison United Phonograph Co. 1038 To Mention this nmpber? NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COijs fiRiber. . Sept 16 5 H Phonographs' at 4Q.00 200.00 Less 50 % 100.00 100.0 Nos. ■ ' ; . __ ‘ 1409, 1414, 1416,1419, 1420. S.P. Moriatfty . .. . . London, Eng; '..'.V. ;1‘. o/o Baldwin Bros & -tip; . 53 Broadway, N. ;Y . 27 W I LLI AM STREET, S. V. Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir;- We sand you under separate cover, a supply of the latest printed matter issued by the United States Phonograph Company. 1 sent Cornelius for this* and He saw there two packages ready for shipment to luohnow, India, and they appear to be very busy. The Phonograph Works are also very busy, and we saw the other day fifteen “HOME" PHONOGRAPHS, going to the Edison Manufac¬ turing Company on 23rd Street. If all these people cai\ do euoh a good business, it is conclusive that in such a territory as is owned by this Company, there must be plenty of business. Your 8 very truly. Secretary. New York, September 23rd,1897. My Dear Mr. Mori arty: -FBRSONAL. I am JUBt In receipt of your letter of September, r«5"— ' and I reply at onoe. You aek what I think of the letter you wrote to Mr. Sear lee, dated September 10th, 1897. There la nothing in the letter that you have not good reason for writing, and I Bee no objeotion whatever to your stating it in Just the way you have, and I think it will be perfectly understood. I consider your letter wisely written, in placing the responsibility in the proper plaoe^and in writing him concerning his man, beoausc outside interference can only complicate the situation, and gives the man the opportunity of discussing the Company's affaire with the Works people. Your letter cannot fail to impress Ur. Searlee that he made a mistake in hurrying you off without being fully equipped, and itilOokedto me as if he felt a greater interest in the Cotton Company, than he did in seeing that you were prepared for the business of the United Company, indeed he did not seem to realist the necessities of your having a full line of Matfiinee to take with you. He seemed to be blinded by hie one desire to get you off. ajr ■ : i Mr. Searles meets all remarks^relating to the injustice and injury to the Company by the Worke^with the statement the* he dees not blame them (the Works); or something equivalent^ because we do not giro thep aqy orders, end , that we cyi uc^op>lieh shat we j -2- want as soon as vs show soma bualntss, he also thinks wo have hat enough of lawsuits.but Mr. Searles looses sight of the fast that we bought and oan tha Patents and Rights, and that if we never gave the Works a single order, they have no right to enter into league with "Tewksbury or any one else to try to obtain work for the Works through Bales abroad, and defeat the polisy of our Company, but the Company's claims cannot be pressed without spending some money. MeOhesney, or whoever suppliss Mr. Searles with the false stories, etc., has made him very skeptical of the success of your efforts, or the Company's future, for they have left an impression; but it will be the old story that you always overcome all obstacle by your own pluok, and force them to acknowledge that you were right. Y*ur letter makes it very clear that Mr. IfeOheanay is distasteful, but I do not look fbr much ohange for the better until you have oonoluded some of your present negotiations. I want to oall your attention to a little oireunstanoa. I asked your Brother to go to the Works today to see about getting some of their printed matter. He waited quite a time in the offise aik&otieed two persons behind the glass in Mr, Gilmore's private offise walking up and down, they however finally earns out, it was Gilmore and Tewksbury, Gilmore was sompUt out at seeing your Brother there, that he would not speak to him and admitted two or thVSS other persons to his private office until your Brother got -3- tlred and oame away. This looks very muoh as if the same old order of things was in operation, notwithstanding Mr. Tewksbury is no longer Sales Agent, but as stated before, I do not think anything will be accomplished by Mr. Searles until we are well established through the Companies abroad, and oan get some orders. Yours very truly. New York, September 24th, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONA!}. In reply to your letter of September 15th, I called on the three Agents, last evening, and they will all do everything possible to rent the house quiekly. Whitehouse * Porter seem to be the principle Agents, and Mrs. Rionda has been attending to the matter, as they informed me that she directed them to rent the House for $2700?,“1^^hat if the lessee whould want the front cleaned it would be $2800, and they have been advertising it for the latter figure. One of their men went with me to the House, and every¬ thing seems to have been completed, except the front, which Mrs. Rionda has stored cleaned, notwithstanding, and the work has pro¬ gressed as farAae~1 the third story. As far as they have gone the front looks very nioely. I hope that Mrs. Rionda will not feel hurt or aggrieved in any way on account of my calling upon the Agents, as she has undoubtedly been giving the House every possible attention. I have advised the different Agents that your letter to me no doubt contained the latest instructions, and to rent the House, even if they are obliged to aooept $2700. and to let no good tenant go, although you considered $3000. as a very small figure. Kindly note that Mr. Whitehouse tells the people that the piece of furniture in the recess in the Dining Room can be removed if the tenant desires, and I presume you will advise Mrs. Rionda what to do with it in case it is removed, but I should think that if it was taken out, the walls would require soma attention, although that style is now out of fashion. The Agent, Mr. Milld, said that he had heard nothing in regard to the House ainoe the alterations, but that before that, he had offered the House for $2500, Of oourae I gave him the Bane figures as I did to the others, but he oomplained of someone having taken down his Bign, tad I told him it was due to the work that had been going on there. Ely & Company will also do what they ean to rent the House, and Whitehouse stated that the House ought to rent, as there seemed to be a good demand, and this was just the season. With kindest regards to Mrs. Moriarty. Yours very truly, tr/Ls' „ New York, September 25th, 1897. My Dear Mr. Mori arty : - I thank you very muoh for your letter of September 17th, enclosing oopy of letter of Baree date to Mr. Searlea, whioh have been received thia morning, and as the * UMBRIA* sails at 3 o'clock, I an able to write you a hurried letter, by that vessel. Your letters are encouraging to a great degree, and I feel as much pleased as if I owned the whole Company. Mr. Searles letter to you of September 7th, makes me feel what I have asserted all along, that he will do his utmost, as soon as you convince him that theiibusinegs will be a success, for he has not grown up with it, as wo have, and therefore cannot realize its possibilities. . We have had promises from Gilmore and Bdison before, assented Just as stoutly, whioh have not been oarried out*, but the situation to-day, is different, and will improve daily in favor of the United Company, so that, as you sueoeed, everything else will suoeeed proportionately, and the key-note for everything that is done, will come from your sueoess. She Patent matter referred to in your letter, is the best thing that oould happen to this Company, and will upset all of Bdison' s calculations, when it ultimately comes to his knowledge* There will be no baekward move for this Company in future and I think you have accomplished great things since your arrival* I heard indirectly that it was not the intention of Mr. -2- Bdison to make a cheap machine, but no doubt after receiving your letter, Mr, Searlec, will endeavor to cohvinoe him to the contrary. 1 wrote you this some little time ago, ahd stating at the sane time that he was working on a new 'Phonograph, which was to be styled *Ihe Big Clock-motor Phonograph*, but I haVe heard^f^^hrfr in re- A gard to this very lately. It would certainly be a very gpod thing, if Mr. Searles could get control of the Works, and the National Company, in fact this Company must ultimately control the whole situation. Tewksbury's relations as Sales Agent has undoubtedly been severed, but I am not yet convinced that Edison and Qilraore have thrown him over, however it is a step in the right direction, and we may atill get better things. I am very sorry about the packing of Bettini's goods, and I shall go and see DeOaetro about it at once. We paid about #8.00 to have them carefully paeked. The Multiple* Phonograph, was purchased! for us by Mr. DeOastro, and wa gave him complete instructions, as to what we ^s&ted, as you know, we did not want to deal with Mr. Cress our¬ selves. I will endeavor to get one of the Cundaker Slot Attach¬ ments, and send to you at once, as also a horn, but this was an exceptional purohase, and not entirely under our control. 1 note your remarks in regard to Mr,„ Volkmann, and' will give him no information whatever. -a- Tfour personal letters to me with incloaures, are kept in the 8tristest oonfidenoe, but I should like to know how much infor¬ mation I an at liberty to give your Brother. He wants to InWV whether I get any letters from you, and what they oontain, and X sometimes feel embarassed to know precisely what I ought to X have not the least objection to giving him any inftnsa- tion that come a to me, but the way he talke occasionally, and suddenly coming out with something when some stranger is present, makes me nervous. Please do not misunderstand me, I only want a word from you to regulate my actions. Perhaps you will realize what I mean, when I unfbrm you, that Mr. Ores 8 and your Brother meat on the Street one day, ant your Brother had a talk with him, resulting in Mr. areas oonsenting to give him the Agency for South America for his Multiplex, but during the conversation said that he intended to exhibit at the Paris Exposition, and your Brother told him he oould not, that his Brother would prevent that, or something of tlmt kind. He also said to Mr. Grass, that we could seize Phono graphs abroad, and referred him to the American Xobaeco Company, to whom we cold a bill recently, beoauss they had had com trouble la England with a former shipment. How if my opinion wars asked in regard to this kind of indiscriminate talk, particularly to Mr. oress, X should say that it was injudicious, but as I stated before, X do not wi*t this to ba oonsi ddi'dd in^ttier sense than as pursly business, and for directions as to what I should do, in regard to undeveloped natters oonneoted with the business. Please take into account, that I should like to give your Brother all the information that I can, as he feela Juet as deep an interest in the business, as any man could, but I would like to have soma general idea of your wishes in the matter. I have heard that the Columbia Phonograph Company, have recently bought out the Ohieago Talking Machine Company, and you remember some one told us while you were here, that the Ameriean Oraphophone Company had opened a place at 26 Cresoent Place, London and I hope Mr. Searles will take some action against the*. I will answer your other letters in detail' for the Yours very t ruly. Company by next mail. ^ . /5WA y, 7&r; 7?rejt/i/7fyu!u/t/<:i 37c«/t/nr&<$BarleA%*iir/i>n6 37tomaAJ$ Ss/fAWK 3. 7l7/brrid7?n J&toiwy Stircctm? Z&sni/tnfrMj!"tt/e,.7Z,Mu, Dear SirS- We are in receipt this morning of a letter from Mr. A.F. Schneider, copy of which we enclose. We also send you the oiroular or catalogue, (by next mail) by which you will see that the Columbia Phonograph Company, have opened a place at 34 B'vard Des Italians, Paris, Mr. Gilmore twitted me yesterday, in regard' to the Grapho phone people opening places abroad, and we will send you by next mail, two or three copies of the "PH0N0800PB" which gbntains more or less information, and we have marked some of the articles. Your 8 very truly, Z' Secretary. P,f*4*Mr* fohnelder askB UB to acknowledge receipt of this letter, thf as ir h0 waa keePinG an eye on us. You know he is ^ Mhat r0Pr0B0«0d Mrs. Billing and Mr, Sohmidtlapp at the [ENCLOSURE] A. F. Schneider. Perth Amboy, Sept 28/ 97. International Graphophone Co. New York. Mr. Morieon, Seo'y, I send you under separate cover the latest circular of the Columbia Phonograph Co. Please note that they have an office in Paris presumably for the sale of their instruments. As I under¬ stand! i^ your qompaniee are the ohly ones having that right. Perhaps this pamphlet has beSh called to your notice, i>6tf©r e , but it lb barfely poBsitle i.t has escaped your notice. TPie'as^ hSknowledge reffbipp. Yo^ipa truly, A, E. Schneider. New York, September 30th, 1897. Hy Dear Mr. Mori arty:- PERSONAL. I saw Ur. Searles, today, and although he had very little time, and I have been two days trying to get i hold of him, he gave me hie attention, when I did see him, and I went with him from his office as far as the Western National Bank, he being eo rushed on aooount of hie being obliged to go away this afternoon. I oovered as many things as I could in the time, and particularly urged a reduction in the prioee of maohines, as well aB Records, Blanks, and the manufacture ef a cheaper Phonograph, and I hope to some purpose, for hi insisted that it must be done at once, as MoOheaney has been fooling about seeing Gilmore for a couple of days, so that he told me to call up MoOhssney, on the tihone; and send him oul at once, which I have done I told him, that I had already attended to the various other matters, referred to in your letters of September 17th, and showed him the replies of the Works, copies ofwhich I am sending you. I shoved him your cable of September 89th, and he said that he had heard something himself recently, or within a day or two, but would knov more about it shortly* He did not say what it was, but I hope to find out, I wish I had his complete confidence, the same as you would have, but maybe I will accomplish it, beoause it is a great satisfaction for me to inform you promptly, I also referred to obtaining control of the Works and the 3 1 3 National Company, also to the advisability of a suit against the Graphophone Company, but I am afraid thess things will not be accomplished yet. He said something to the effect, that he was willing to push this thing along, but Mr. Moriarty must do some¬ thing over there. Now my laBt letter gave you a very good idea of the situation here, in relation to Mr. Searles. He is loath to take^ such a thing as a suit with the Graphophone Company, on such chances of auocesB, as Mr. Hughes has heretofore explained to him, and he thinks you can top the Graphophone in the countries over there; the fact of the Columbia Phonograph Company, opening places abroad, particularly in Paris, being fresh in his mind, and I have Just shown him the »Phonopoope^ and the pamphlet of the Columbia Phono¬ graph Company, which I am sending you. I also called his attention to the significance of an article in the July Phonoscope, on page 13, and he has taken with him on the train this afternoon, this paper, with some letters and j other data, I have given him, so that he oannot fail to understand j the situation. OCTOBBRllsf, A.M, Mr. Searles has returned and has Just read your I letter of Septenfeer 21st, 1897, to him, and to show you how he I feela, I give you his wordB, he did not hand the letter to me to | read, but remarked that it was the same old talky talky, why does I j he not go ahead and form his French Company, and fight the people \J on his own ground; of k; scale. The above pri es t-feieluae, paofcinn an^3oxi.ij»; : anti ths delivery of the machines i„o..b, Loudon* When the above Insures 'were Riven, the list price of 1, ea-llcd the *«••«<£" .°M>.nosrapb, ' «ai"$40. 00 , but has tf-iytrboftv'' The Hi it rrioc Z^JV*}- Has' "pot yet, beer, ?*,*&.- ■«*# , _• ..:, '• ''■• ■ ' . . ,.V>{ - ‘ i the above goods are. entirely too Aigh, -and >n» cent more, titan the .actual •cost, plus •Type Me. 3, We should have a very cheap rna chine of this type , They can be soii in j'/reat osfcSiVSitia-ar, as a toy, e npiieiall*,* if we ’can f>et it out before -the hoL?.;:e-ys. Mison promiued a va-wy- cheap machine , but seems to *«S **V*R it «p. xtr<: feixoSAi, I'KortooE.Aj’h whom* msr hot owe 'ooiis 4:haH W. 1)0, •50 - 184.21 94,176.69 MEMROANDUM. Note in favor S.F.MorAarty, dated April 11th, 1892. Interest 5 years A 60 days to June 10/97 at 6X per annum. Interest from June 10/97 to Sept: 10/37. at 0% per anntun.&2 days. 2,500. 879.01 3,379.01 _ 51-Jl 3,430.82 New York, October 5th, >1897. My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. I am duly in receipt of your personal letter to me of September 24th, enclosing copy of letter to Mr. Searlea, of same dat$, which latter I do not think you oould improve upon. I went down to see Mr. Searles this A.M., and he said well, what have you this morning, I said nothing in particular, but I handed him a letter I had written, urging attention to the "Big Clock Motor Madhine, which I hope Edison is working upon, also I had written him in regard to theTaxes for 1895. Then X waited for him to speak, he finally said, I received a long rigmarole from Moriarty this morning, the Edison Bell people seem to have gone // back on him or; :so me thing. I do not know how much there is in it. * K I will let you have it when I read it, I said that is the letter referred to last week, (your cable) he satd yes? so there is nothing for me to do about it now until I hear further from him. X wish however that copies of the enclosures had been attached to my letter, as I could spend the interim in looking *km them over, and I may not possibly get them all, at least right' off, | but should not, criticise, as you Bend me so much whioh helps me a I great deal. • j I am looking up what data I have on the Hough matter, but ! Theodore Seligman has the papers relating to the Commission, al¬ though I have some correspondence on the subject. If you are able to get the original papers from Hough, which are signed by Edison or the Works, it would be conclusive, and indeed it ia necessary, and I should think would be a good pretext our old suit for damages; what a great outrage this astounding thing is. I have not felt any confidence whatever in the. Works people yet. Pan you not get a bill or two somehow from Hough showing the prices he pays for his goods, and who bills them. This will prove that the goods were actually purchased under his contraot with the Works, and at the prices agreed upon. If my opinion 4s legally anything, I should say do not get an injunction until positive proof of the whole matter is obtainedyand then it might be better to start suit against Edison first,, but no mistake should be made this time in thinking we have proof sufficient for the Courts to recognize, when we have not. If after you get the signed papers and letters from Hough oan you not induce him to make an affidavit of his dealings with Tewksbury, Edison, Gilmore and the Works, which will positively implicate them all, this might be accomplished when matters progres a little further. Has he any printed matter bearing Edison's name, which he has been authorized to use by letter by the Works or Edison? I have not yet seen the contraot with Hough, but i>t» tie fe'p^^en^^lishon°'Cff#r^art of the English Company to dispose of any part of their contract without the consent of the United Com¬ pany. If they were to ibrm the Mew Company now they could not carry out their contract to the letter, and the new Company would be hampered by this License Agreement with Hough which takes away instead of adding to its value. I suppose you have referred to the English contract, but if not please read Articles 2 and 17. Please note that I do not know at all, yet, what Mr.' Searles thinks of this matter, because he has not yet digested the letter, but I shall do everything I can, to induce h$.m to take some action in all the matters referred to in your letters. I note what you say in regard to the South American Agency, and no money will be paid; I also note your remarks in regard to the bill of Tracy,' Boardman & Platt, , and will await your further advices in regard to the payment of the balance of their account, say $222.80 I am studying up the Graphophone contracts a kittle, and nrllli report to Mr. Searles, but do not infer from thiB, that we are likely to bring suit. I am simply looking tinto the matter to see what might be possible. Yours very truly. Jfc/Mr<$'^eeurte& Mmt&mt Setibpm & T&ffimbew <$r.cnt»,y. & ^^^U»tf^7MoTUI^,iSe’Biau&H6 . MmaorySk/nxtorr W>tU/M>fefyjatt/e> J&ad John -E. Sonnies, Esu., President, 117 Wall St., New York City. Dear Sir:- I hereby respectfully submit a few surest ions which tf not acted upon, at least may lead your thought to some solution oi the difficulties which stand in the way of the success of this Company. Kindly note first the following impedimenta. 1. Phonographs are shipped abroad by certain parties, and ‘ the floods gome from the Works. , 2. There Works are aware forward. is not the slightest doubt that Edison and the of the channels through which these machines go ' ». Machines have been advertised ai is used to convince the public that they , of Mr. Edison himself, and the Works'.' road, and Edison’d nanie re sold with the consent 4. Mr. Edison and the Works try to avoid the r esponsibilit' for these shipments, by claiming that they oanhot be responsible for a machine after it is sold, or that they cannot dxadt^frbMtSlt their customers that the machines shall not go out of the country. S. One great outlet for shipments abroad, to-day, through the United States Phonograph Co. Tewksbury) has been, and is of Newark, (O.'E. o. With this knowledge, in the possession of Mr. Edison and the Works, this man Tewksbury was engaged by the National Phono¬ graph Company, as their Sales Agent, with the full knowledge that moat of his business was in shipments to foreign territory. 7, The National Phonograph Company, of Orange, owning the Patents for the United States, which is Edison's Company, and of which W. 13. Gilmore, is Manager, and for whom G. K. Tewksbury was Sa4es Agent, although he was removed on the 7th of September, 1897, is the direct outlet for the Works of all machines and supplies, which now find their way to foreign countries. 8, The Manager of the Works, and of the National Phonograph Company, W.E. Gilmore, with Edison's oonsent, because Edison is familiar with all that goes oh, and I know it be be a fact, claims that the National Phonograph Company order goods in such large quantities, notably cylinders in 100,000 lots, that they the National are entitled to better prices than the Phonograph Works can give to the United Company. 9, The Phonograph Works, have reoently given an estimate to the United Company, at prices entirely too high, and far beyond what the goods can be manufactured for with 20# added, in the lots mentioned. This is not merely criticism but fact. Musical Records should be made for us at more reasonable prides. 10. A demand exists for a very cheap machine, which I am told Edison has declined to make, notwithstanding he showed a model to both you and Mr. Moriarty of such machine, therefore he is not meet ing with the requirements of the business, as understood by our contract, and we should at once make a written protest. 11. I have been informed that Edison is making a BIG CLOCK MOTOR PHONOGRAPH, 150 thread, for commercial purposes, and we should know what progress is being made in this direction, for this would be a great addition, and help to Mr. Moriarty in his negotiat tions abroad. 12. The Works manufacture a' 16 cylinder clock-motor Phono¬ graph, upon the clock-motor portion of which, patents are claimsd by G.E. Tewksbury, but the July number of "Phono's cope" states that the American Graphophohe Company own the patent on this motor, therefore the claim of the Works, that they can only manufacture this for the United States Phonograph Company, cannot stand, and I do not think the American Graphophohe Company, would dare to contest our right to acquire this patent if we desired, therefore a very low' price should be figured on this for us by the Works, with not' over 20# profit. j THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH 00. AND THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE CO. 1. The American Graphophone Company, instituted a number of j suits in this country, and one against Edison, olaiming infringe- / j ment of their patents for "ENGRAVING ON WAXVj^ ", i j A compromise was affected with Mr. Edison, he^Vinstituted a 1 „a „ The phono«raph Works have recently endeavored to *orce of io them f th? iJati°nal Company, insl'Z ”ooa“ o;r„rf,.r[“o‘“o”I,.co"pmy bium « - ■ ■“■”,»« S mrjofo^Ss™ ma °°“fA"Y A»B ™ ««» » to'Vthe w^tani T'hat T'h9fe is no «reat amoimt of money guaranteed claim tnk ^ th® Wational ComPany. for the large orders they if out oi- onr^;k!td Tn ™8’ U is Bi^ Edison taking it out of one pocket and putting it in the other. pricefafthe tEHlJtlk ** * f°r n0t givinG us as • ™ ” h“V8 * e0ntr“<’t »• to th. -3- counter olaim, in which they both agreed to discontinue the suits; the exaot conditions of the agreement, we have been unable to ascertain, but there is no doubt, that the Graphophone Company were trie stronger, and obtained some advantage. 2. The American Graphophone Company have shipped machines abroad, direct from their factory, but the Columbia Phonograph Company is the Agent now through whom their machines find their way to foreign territory, and the letter Company, have within the past two months sent their Secretary, Mr. Cromelin abroa to establish Agencies for the sale of their machines, that is Graphophones, and Mr. Dorian is the Manager of a large branoh in Paris, after the pattern of their place at Broadway & 27th St.. Hew York. ■ The Columbia Company operates under authority of American Grapho¬ phone Company, and Licensee of the Phonograph Patents of Edison. WHAT FACILITIES HAVE THE KDISON UNITED PHONOGRAPH CO. FOR DOING 1. The Kdison-Bell Phonogfaph Corporation, Ltd, London cover the territory of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. The Deutsche Kdison Phonographeri Gesellschaft, Ltd, Cologne, cover the territory of Germany. 3. A French Company is i the eve of completion. 4. An Austrian Company have entered into negotiations for that territory. 5. Mr. Moriarty has other business ina more or less advanced stage. - I do not believe any one doubts that these Companies can do a large business, and have done so even under existing con¬ ditions. HOW ARK WE TO MEET THE SITUATION. Yoii receive reports that Tewksbury is doing a great business and sending in lots of orders to the WorkB. That our Patents are worthless on aocount of failure to work them, eto, besides no end of other gossip, and you seem ready to believe all that is said, ho matter from what souroe, without; -4- stopping to reason it; out. Let roe do this for you. First: You have entered into intimate business relations with a man, who if you stop to think, you will realize is leaving no stone unturned to make a success of this business, but instead of meeting every issue that presents itself you let him do all the ; " work, and you become, shall I say, almost frantic in your office,' because of reports from men who are doing their best to work upon your feelings. The greatest grievenoe which the Phonograph Works and Edison claim to have against this Company is, that we do not send them orders, notwithstanding they know full 'rail that they are putting every possible obstacle in the way of the sucoess of this Company. To meet this, you have it in your power to successfully bring about an agreement with Edison, by which he will agree to supply us for foreign shipment, machines and Supplies, including Cylinders and Records, at a lower figure than they are billed to the National' Phonograph Company, and this can be done by your pre¬ senting the base to Edison as a personal one, and asking f6r suoh ; figures, based upon an order in 60 days time from you, for a large number of machine s covering a period of one year. After you get these figures, make aoondition thait the Works v/ill oarry out any reasonable suggestion to prevent thiser illegal 8 ale s and get a letter from Edison assuring you that he .' will do his utmost to stop it, also asserting in positive terms that -5- no one except this Company has the right to use his name in any way, and authorizin'* us to prosecute such persons abroad, this will aid the negotiations and back up Mr. Moriarty' because in the faoe of such circumstances he requires it, in "addition we want tsor* thing reoent upon whioh we can work, and finally demand a stronger paper. Edison is skeptical of ever getting any orders from this Company, but you oan secure him by such means, and you can see there is little or ho chance of loosing money on machines purchased, even though you should in 60 days see your way to being responsible for such an order, but you will not have to, because the capital can be raised if prioes are low enough. 'i’here is a two fold object in this, not only to stop the bulk of machines going abroad, but it will narrow down the competi¬ tion of this Company between two Inventors, Edison and Bell or Tainter, and with Edison working for this Company, in manufacturing the best ancl cheapest maohine, the competition of the Craphophone could be entirely stopped; particularly with the aid of the fbreign Companies, in meeting the demand’ abroad, and with what protection the law affordB, but if we sit idly by, of course they help them¬ selves, and we deserve it. Ultimately, if it is possible, by force or otherwise,' the Works and Edison should be 30 bound, in any contrast made, ' that if the conditions for protection whioh we would ask, are not ' complied with, that we would have a lien upon the Works, in other wordB make' the Works security for the fulfillment of the ooritraof -6- With Edison's estimate of favorable prices to us, and such other ..aid in the way of protection as he could render us, Mr. Mori arty would xxx no doubt_be_able to obtain at once, a guarantee from the different Companies abroad to order a aren't quantity of machines, but Edison must not only make the prices favorable but meet from time to time any improvements or cheap machine which may be produced by the Graphophone Company, or any other' person. WHILE YOU ARE DOING THIS GIVE ME PERMISSION TO SEE MR. " HUGHES, and I will go over the situation with him, disouss the Hough matter, and obtain a written opinion both in regard to Edison and the Graphophone Company. • ’’/hen we have progressed so, far, we will be ready to demand' what we ask for an I tell you those people are full of bluff. I hand you a copy of a’ cable received this morning from Mr. Moriarty, in regard to the French Patents. Y Yours very truly. Secretary. UNI PHONE, N.Y. October 8th,1897. FKANOE PATENTS ABSOLUTELY SAVE NOTWITHSTANDING OTHER REPORTS VALIDITY QUESTION NEVER RAISED ONLY LEGAL QUESTION RAISED THUS pAR REQUIRES COMPLIANCE CERTAIN’ RULES PATBNTOFFIOE FRANCE NEGOTIA¬ TIONS PROGRESSING QUITE SATISFACTORY DO NOT ACCEPT POLLOKS INCORRBC STATEMENT, MORI ARTY. New York, Oetober 8th, 1897. My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. I went down to see Mr. Searlea yeeterdayvafternoon, and I asked him for the letter from you, dated September 24th, which he had promiaed to ■ show me, and he handed it to me, 1 thought rather reluctantly, with the copy of the lease to Hough and Minutes of the Board; the other papers had been aent to Mr. Hughes, X pre¬ sume by McOhesney, for he ha* been there aeveral times lately, and was there to-day, Mr. Searlea stated this afternoon that the lawyer was looking into the Hough matter, and other things, and would report on Monday. Mr. Searlea is also looking into the matter of prices, and (Jilmore had told him, that Edison would be down from the Mines on Monday, and he would then be able to see him about it. All of this information, I received, after handing Mr. Searlea this afternoon, a copy of the Cablegram received from you this morning, and after handing him a letter, which I had written, a copy of which I enclose. Mr. Searlea said that he was not satisfied or convinced that the Patents were safe, and altogether valid, and that he was taking steps to find out whether it was true or not. Upon my suggesting that he give me permission to *e« Mr* j Hughes, and go over these different matters with hita, he I me the iHfb^iion above, and stated he would the* hbft *»&*!» MHy<- j ™rya8 raquir,9d> but you know very well that X will not be permitted to oonsult Mr* Hughes* In handing Mr. Searles the letter, X tried to explain to him, the full import of the ideas I wished to convey, he seemed bored, and oontinued reading his letters while I was'talking, although a remark or two I made in the letter, may have caused a little irritation, but nevertheless true, because it is only very lately that the above matters haye been taken in hand, and he re- marke^. that what I said in the letter, referring^, was not true b'ut X^pli-ed thaH^c&n^ another person, and was merely in the interest of the business, etc notwithstanding I have n6 doubt at all that this will help to keep things moving. Now Mr. Mori arty. If I have overstepped the bounds, I do not object to your saying so, and you know how difficult a thing f! * it is for a man to urge the matters referred to in your letters, when Mr. Searles considers that I am the Secretary and nothing more* He also is of the opinion that your letters to him are not reported to me; that I am not made acquainted with the various matters of the Company, by you, because you have charged me not to notify Mr. Searles that I have eopies, if they were sent to the Company, it might be better, but I am lead to believe that even were this not a factor to influence Mr. Searles in his conduct of the business, and in his intercourse with me, I d6 not think that as your representative he Would feiye me his Wfidle ddjifidehoe, ;;:r: h' r*"r“a to *«•- 1 -* »*■ w hl„, that h9 had perhaps made a mistake in telling me so mueh. You can see from this, how he feels in regard to the business, and how much faith he puts in your letters and telegrams, Yesterday afternoon he was very much pertxjfed indeed, and I give you his words, as nearly verbatim as I can remember, as follows:- and the we refers probably to you and himself) Moriarty haB engaged another Lawyer, and is uoinw to “g tt hs Ydi son-Bell, and they ilaim ?hey hS make the arrangement with Hough to protect themselve* L^A1VOn th® paper 88nt on by Mopiarty to our havo '•*“ *• — il: s f" ■»* •»**« *» There is no business in his letter, *he utt.. I to Ur. Wl.., »a.h.,ood by hto, ,», h. „» to, ,„uln „m.lTOtly th. Id.., and in «„ that yo„ W todetotond It, I “ 1. .topi, to outllna, h.thtog to ord.n to Sto. hto to think about, with a view to meeting the situation, as I ekpiaift- «<* to him. According to My vie*, the letter is sensible, for if we oould get figures from the Works, based upon such an enormous business, as the various Companies combined, could give us, under a o are fully worded contract from the Works, and later some additional assurance of protection, it would place us on a great footing, and it is not Arif>6seible, if worked up upon the lines X have suggested, getting ond thing at a time, and in the interim prefchrlrtg 6urselVes for a fight in case of failure, or at least something that would giVe emphasis to our demands, it oould be accomplished by a man of the standing of Mr. Searles. Mr* Searles never sends for me to come down there, and any 'information as to what he is doing, and it was only bn noco-unt of the lettef t wrdie, and my questions, that I have beetf able to learn to day* that he is now doing anything at ' which I have undertaken all, so you see Mr’; Moriart?* it is dot ah easy task.^nor one that can be successfully accomplished. , in view of the feeling that Mr. Searles has in regard td the business , and with no greater stand¬ ing personally than-T' have in t^e eyas of Mr. Searles . This lei^r~i*8 written just after my return from Mr. Searles office, aijd when I feel annoyed at the visit not being altogether to my liking. I hope what I have said in this letter, will be considered j ae an expression of confidence between two friends, nothing more, j and that it will go nof further, for I have spent two evenings walking up and down my room trying to evolye some plan to did tfbtt taut Mr. Searles, Lnov doubt, feeljj greatly worried over his re¬ sponsibility in the Company, and he has to deoide whether the stories told him are true or not, but he should know better. I think Mr. Searles was surprised when I handed him your oable this afternoon, for he had no idea I would cable you, and I think possibly this may have had something to do with his remark, "that perhaps he had made a mistake in telling me so much? but if he properly realized that 1 was talking and acting for you and not myself, he had no right to make such a remark. Yourg very truly, P.S. Mr. Searles has not referred to your letters to him about Xhe Edifeon-Beli and the German' Company, and 1 have said nothing about them. PIiEASE REALIZE THAT A WHOLE WEEK PASSES BEFORE YOU GET THIS LETTER and that ther situation In regard to everything may be changed in that time. f He ssfid he wuld fSeid my letter over when he had more time. Although d km^tinabquainted with the source from which Mr. Searles obtained the report that our Patents in France were worthless, I am inolindd tp the beliew that it came from the Edison or Tewksbury side, and not f itemr Pbiidk Or the Graphophone people., thi<& however is only -surmise. " ^ Now York, Ootobor 9th, 1897, Mr- Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. I am Jurt in roooipt thiB morning of your latter of Ootobor 1st, with letter of same date addressed to Mr. Searles, and it io written in euoh a way that I can infbrm Mr. Searlea that it has bean sent to me, altho4h I have not more than simply glanced it through, and have but a few moments to oatoh the mail. This will give me a pretext to see him again about the matters referred to In my letter to you of yesterday as well a. the the subjeots of the present letter. I shall endeavor not to urge matters unnecessarily if I see they are already receiving his attention, but the only way I oan find out i. by asking for he 1, reticent, and is so busy all ■ the time, that he cannot give it^fef I will however do the best 1 oan under the oircumetanoea. Yours very truly, P,S* The. Agents have advertised the House for run* T . ... Wg&3S&SS£siS- s?«s yr^sryysL'as r*1"- - — ^fo/wt/ S. ^ea/f/ed. 7?saU/tm/t/77/-.Uttt//t:> . Treitjur 37 WILLIAM STREET, S. F. Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sirs- /^Octob er_iath^!89^^_ The man who now signs himself as Manager of the National Phonograph Company, Orange, New Jersey, is, J, R. Sehermerhorn, who is the brother-in-law of W. E. Gilmore, the Manager of the Phonograph Works, We enclose you a clipping from the New York Clipper of October 9th, 1897, it is an advertisement of J. 0. Prescott, Edison Building New York, and gives the reduced prices of the Phonograph, and we call your attention to the last olause. Yours very truly. Secretary, New York, October 13th, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty: I have done everything I know how to Btir things up, and set the ball rolling, and I think I have been tolerably success fill, for I think it is due to your late lettersyand my letterB*od MrrkSearles and work here, that has stimulated more energetlo ao- tion, for Mr. Hughes sent for me to-day, and he was considering the Hough matter in connection with the Fdison-Bell Company, and the French Patents, and ihoidentally the opening of the offiee of the Graphophone Company, in Paris, I have just returned' frdm Mr. Hughes office, late this afternoon, and have written him a. letter, a copy of which I enclose and will giyo him further da^a to-morrow, he will then haw an in¬ terview with -Mr, SearleB, whifeh. is a stgrt in the right direction. Mr. Hughes, stated frt referring to the Hough matter and the Bngli* Company, that "he frad 4 pretty clear idea, as to what should be done, hut he declined td tell me, on the ground that it would take too lopg, andhe wanted tb, have a^ talk- with Mr. Searles first. 1 showed Mr. Hughes, p co,j>y of the 'Phonoscope* tor July, as well as for August & September, w^ft ^tter two months 1 am sending you by this mail., FRKNOK PA'XBiis afternoon is the first time I have been able to see Mr. Searles, since I handed Him my letter on Friday last, and I had some misgiving as to how I would be received, but I had the oonfi- -2- denoa of a man that feels that he has done right, and I think this was demonstrated to me, w&o-day, as he reoeived me pleasantly enough, and I informed him of the visit to Mr. Hughes, aa well as handed him a copy of the letter I wrote Mr. Hughes. I talked over a few thinge on the run up the street with him, and he is of the opinion, that it would be an advantageous thing, if you could get the French contract through, even though you are obliged to make some concession in the purchase price fbr the defenee of the Patents, and let the Frenchmen go rigrt ahead and fight it now. He. referred to having written you a letter on Monday, October 11th, and finally gave me permission to go back to his office, and aBk his Secretary to show it to me, whieh I did, and I took time enougr to make a few notes from it. I sed that he is of the opinion that he oan accomplish great things with the aid of threatened litigation, and an order in hand of 1,000 Machines, whioh I myself, very much doubt, although tit, the litigation part of it, I believe enforeing from every avenue, give it a trial, whether we finally make it successful or not, give them the work of defending it, and make them sick of it, haqper their business in every way,- but in regardteto machines, the idea conveyed in my letter to Mr. 8earles, it a good ona, that ia, to ooneentrate the orders from every Company that is fornsd, or that will be tinned in the near future, and give us enough business in one order, to make it of a very great interest indeed to Mr, Kdison -a- to give us the kind of oontraot that we ehould inaiat upon, when placing such an order, aa will greatly atrenghthen our protection. If we once get atarted, we can get more advantages as we proceed and increase the business, but aa it stands to-day, we are not protecting ouraelvea, and the idea prevails, among the men who are antagonistic to this Company, that we are unable to do ao, consequently, if any amalgamation or bonoentration of all forces, or any combination were attempted, the other side would tell us that they can sell all the machines that they desire without our aid, therefore we must strain every nerve to establish ourselves under, better conditions than prevail to-day. Yours very truly. 7//ortwfy,i!£r/ffleM/m/< jtf/mlo/y SQircctor.' 70u//ire/l/ 7//u'JhU/c ,77ct,u/,rr 27 WILLIAM STREET, S. F, Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir:- When X was at Mr. Hgghes's office yesterday, he brought up the question, as to whether the English Company were obliged to order goods from us under their contract, and I said there had n eve,*/ been any doubt expressed on that point, and that the question had never been raised, but there is evidently something in his mind in regard to this, it is a fact however that there is nothing express¬ ed in the contract, which makes it compulsory on the part of the English Company to pur chase their machines through usf anj it -worth while to make this very clear in future contracts. Yours very truly, ^Jy /y^ // ^ Secretary. tJ_L4th^L89a_^^_ New York, October 15th, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- You will doubtless be surprised to learn that James E. Hough, had the assurance to oall on us yesterday. I let him do the talking, ahd c.h nel tie el y duwa memorandum of what he said. I also handed to Mr. Searles this morning, an identical memorandum, and I think it impressed him greatly that this man is able to order so many maohines, in addition to those which he has on the way over now. • ' Of course we will have nothing to do with him, and he really expected to be kicked out when he came in. He will return, most likely next week, possibly Wednesday. He has not yet seen Tewksbury, and he intimated that his relations with him had not been of the most cordial character. Mr. Searles read your letter to him of October 6th, while I was in his office this morning, and spoke to me of a few points ini it, but he remarked that it was the same old story, although I notioed that he read it over again later, just as I was about starting out. Mr. Searles, I think is now determined to do something, ] and he has written a letter, worded to his satisfaction, and a s strong letter, which he will try to have Edison sign, and he is A going to meet Mr. Edison, very soon, he did not say what day, but | as this ia Friday, and he goes away until Tuesday, it; will no doubi( b» son* time next week, when he intends to go over the wtole sit¬ uation with Bdison, and as he expressed it, have it out with him. I referred to the thousand Machines he spoke of in his last letter to you, and told him it was not enough, that we must work on a large scale and take the whole output of the Works, and Set a contract from Edison, with additional protection; to do this, he must make himself responsible to Edison for the payment on an option from Edison at very cheap prices for a very large number of machines, first order to cogence in not later than 60. days, that 18 if the tim9’ h9 mU8t euarant8e the whole order va^ I am" Hough memorandum showed him how little account an order for a thousand machines would be, but X do not know how far he will take hold of this idea. If you can concentrate the orders of all the different Com¬ panies you have over there, as suggested in a former letter, in order to get cheap prices in one big order, it would help this Company, because the Graphophone people are going to ship lots of machines over there, so will Tewksbury and so will Hough, and there 1 is a great deal in starting first, or at least not letting the othe, fellows get too great a hold before we start. It will have another advantage, which is that if you once show *° Mr* Searle8’8<>™ sood business, some actual business.you will get his support, whether in protection of the rights of the Company for he eeema determined to do some business one way or another, however I do not know at all that his views as to how to proceed would in anyway interfere with your work on the other side, still it is worth your thought. What do you think of the idea of opening a place in Paris for the sale of machines and supply the demand, while the negotia¬ tions are in progress, because if another month and another month goes by, and we have no results, it would not surprise me at all to see Mr. Searles carry out his own views. I waited an hour and a quarter to^see Mr. Searles this morning, and I had to rattle off, as quick as possible everything I said, and had not time to find out about the legal situation, but I realize all this part of it, and I try to make Mr. Searles do so also, and we have made some headway over the way matters stood here two weeks ago, inasmuch Mr. Hughes has been consulted®!* or twice at least.. Yours very truly, cy/i — ! P.S. If Mr. Beatles writes you anything that I should know, please send me a copy. I. have in mind particularly the letter which he may get from Edison to the Edison-Bell./nr G. E. gouraud called this afternoon, and he asked Whether you had a contract with the Company, and whether you got a salary and a commission, I did not say, and referred him to Mr. Searles. He took the names of Mr. Platt, Mr, Searles, Mr. . Watarbuxgj and myself as Directors, and I presume he will write them in gard to his account, as he says he cannot afford, to have it out- [ENCLOSURE] MEMORANDUM. Jams' 8 EV.Hb'ugh whose address is 3 Broad St. Buildings, London E. 0. called at our office this afternoon. He stated that he wanted to make some arrangemmnt with the United Company so that he can buy Machines direct from the Works. Hough is waiting to see Mr. Easton, who is expected back next Tuesday. He buys hig Graphophones from the Columbia Phono¬ graph Company, and they give him 50# off, and he would like to place an order with the Works now for 1,000 MaohineB, if he could make an arrangement with us, and could order 100 machines a month for 12 months. He wants to get the same disoount on the reduced price of the "HOME" Phonograph, as he gets on Oraphophones, namely 50#. The Brewers Exhibition takes place in London very soon, and he wants to get back soon on that account, and he expects to sell a lot of machines there. He says that our Patent of 1886 expires in two years, but that he thinks he can get an extension on it for 7 years, al¬ though there is but a small number of PatentB out of the total number issued which receive this privilege. His Company in London is called "THE EDI SONIA LIMITED" with a capital of £40,000. divided into £29,000 in preference shares, bearing 10# interest, and £20,000 in ordinary Shares. The Edison-Bell Company have a guarantee from July 1st, 1897 of [ENCLOSURE] 1.3,000. per annum for 18 months. They also have 1.5,000 in ordinar shares, but they do not receive their share of profits until the guarantee is paid up. He states he sells a "H0MK» outfit with 6 Records, for £15, t^fo/l/)l/$.<§CMrlcd. 7?rf"Arnt (i)'k/i/um TF/Ztortwr/y, luvTfmuAmti . _ _ S. 7Z.7Z&Mmi4 (Sceretwru. MvitorySfowtotf WtrU/'n/iM.'faV/,:! JW« 37 Wl LLIAM STREET, S. F, Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir:- t:-2ath,— 189-7-r- I have endeavored to get Mr. Hughes to draw up Brother letter for Edison to sign, to the effect that the Works will give us cheaper prices on everything than to the National or anybody else, and he has promised to talk this over with Mr. Searles this morning at half past nine. He is engaged in drafting the other letter referred to in my letter to you of yesterday, and I have endeavored to get all I could in it, though I may not see it when it is finished, as Mr. Searles seems disinclined to say too much to me. These papers may not do any good, but they are better than nothing at all, and v/e have to creep here before we walk. Yours very truly, Secretary. fo/m $. pearler), ffiwu/iutfi \37tema)J$ (§// bu, , ao think he „,lt alighted. Mr. Seanes thinks that Edison has broken entirely with Tewksbury, and Tewksbury threatens to build machines himself, in fact Edison thinks that some manufacturer has a model of a new machine now. Mr. Searles saydhe cannot match you in the length of his letters. I send a late price-list of the National Company. Yours very truly. 6 O'*- &c »<& t ^oy,cj£A*-Ss) (Ol&VZAs«s0sIaJ2* ^ J~0 2 “ C - O «£ O • //bf^^asisu, ah ^ (jio&rCt^ / ■ /c5~ ■ /4^ /wRa<£ ■(£& x^tvia^oi , ^co //J+S' ' <5* ■ /(? c^t ■*M?Cn^ $JLJyLyi/to *^on' w / /£ AA-~- &c£ SFfy fl/iJonAA, c£.c&vmjuh ' (7lejpeKjL&*,' , %r &*!Isjko*-- (fyot^.<*.CHM Oj C. (j^dL^AUArV. <^ fWA^Ltr CM J/fe-iflj P-&£oC , siAr&A.i£. aA /t-Rsum*. aJLw-e^) £ fo?M ■ ✓ ^'xy^tsfc <-cmas /QaA2cC ’juow~ /& AX (&cfr $SVTAA>-UAts6r 7^, /f- - ‘ ri-' New York, Ootober 29th, 189 My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. Your personal letter of Ootober 20th, was received yeBter day P.M., and I note your request for the little memorandum of your account, whioh 1 will forward to you by next steamer. I went down to see Mr. Searles this morning to have some bills approved for payment. Mr. Searles doss not like paying out money for goods shipped abroad, when we do not receive any remittance when they are sold, but I got these aooounts, whioh were for the 5 •Home* Phonographs, 2550 Blanks, and other goods, 5v,t I showed Mr. Searles the weekly statement of aooounts to October 17th, whioh included the sale you made of the 2 "Home* Phonography but that was all I had to stow him, he however said he had received by this mail, a letter from you, but that there was nothing in it. He remarked while I was there, that if we did not get some business pretty Boon, he was going to out it short. Whether this was all talk or not you can Judge for your¬ self. I am about sending to him, as requested, a memorandum of the Cash Reoeipts and DiqbUnsemehts, both hete and in Lon«*»n, sinos Maroh 19th. There will be no business here until next Wednesday, November 3rd, as to-morrow. is Saturday, and Mr. Searles will be away on Monday, and Tuesday i£ Eleotion Day, a holiday. I met MoChesney at Mr. Searles office to-day, and he said that he had not been out to the Works for some time, and that he was not likely to go out there at present, as he had no business to take him there, unless Mr. Searles should want something, but that Mr. Gilmore had been in to see Mr. Searles a couple of timea, and also Edison. Stephen F. Moriarty, Esq., Edison House, Northumberland Ave. London, England. My dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your "personal" letter of the 16th, which contains nothing new, but only the promise of something by later opportunity. X was very much disappointed that the mail just arrived brought me no confirmation of your expectations nor of the cablegram concerning the settlement with the English and German Companies, but those will, no doubt, come to hand on tomorrow's steamer^ awaiting which, X remain Yours truly. I New York, November 1st, 18971 My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. In reply to your letter of October 20th, I enoloae a little memorandum of your Aooount, made up in the way you have requested. Of eourse you know that these items cannot be plaeed to your oredit, without the approval of the Board, with the exception of the item of $83,500., which has already been approved. To-morrow is a holiday, which will make this week very short for business. Your personal letter of October 23rd, was received this morning, and I am much pleased at the contents. I can fully realize the struggle you have had over there in bringing about a satisfactory result in' the face of the very extraordinary oircumstanoes and invasion of our territory. I wish I could do more for you here, but Mr. Searles seems determined not to enter into into any litigation which will involve the expenditure of money, or in fact d& ^anything which will cost money until he sees some money coming in from the oti*r side. * I an about sending him^a statement showing how all monies ftave been expended, both here and abroad, sinoe you left, and as I wrote you last week, he objects to paying tt'iaigotfdn. goods for ship¬ ment to London, as the money does not come baok here; I have been thinking however that he is pretty shrewd in oertain directions, anrtL he may desire to impress this feeling upon me, realizing possibly, that it may be reflected to you, through my letters, the fact is I do not see how he can very well avoid filling any of your little orders, unless he wants to withdraw from the whole business. S. S', Moriarty, Esq., London, England, Dear Sir:- In reply to your favor of October 27th, 1 cannot under- etand how you got the impression that this Company had an Assign¬ ment of Bettini's Micro-Phonograph Patents. The only thing that we have, relating to this Attachment, is, a contract of Agency, dated July 23rd, the original of which, was handed to you, but I am sending you a copy, as well as a copy of an Assignment of this paper, in favor of Mr. Searles. The other documents which relate to the Lyrophone and Duplicator, are in the shape of letters, copies of which we sent you, or rather, I sent them to you personally Au gust 9th, 1897. Mr. Dickenson iHin Washington this week, but I will see him, and ascertain what Patents have been taken out, and if possible^ obtain a renewal of the option for the Duplicator Patents, also will see what we can get in connection with the Micro-Phonograph patents. Mr. Dickerson was away this summer for about two months and we made several efforts to have the time extended on the option relating th the Lyrophone and Duplicator, we also endeavored to -2- reaoh him by latter, through the Attorney he left in charge, but the matter was put off from time to time, until we finally abandon ed doing anything further, as you expected to see Mr. Bettini in London, in a short time. Please however do not confuse thiB with the Micro-Phono¬ graph Patents, as thatAentirely ai separate matter, and you will remember that Mr. Bettini declined in my presence to make these Patents over to you, without some compensation. I will write you by next mail the result of my interview with Mr. Dickerson. Yours very truly, Secretary. P.S. Enclosed please find copy of letter of Mr. Bettini, dated August 3rd, , and copy of letter from you to Mr. Bettini, dated August 4th, 1897. [ENCLOSURE] Now York, August 3rd, 1897, Edison Unltod Phonograph Company, 27 William St., Now York City, Dear SiiS- io I hereby premise to handAyou all orders for Phonographs and Supplies, which I may receive for all countries outside of the United States and Canada, from this date. Yours truly, (Sgd.) 8, Bettini. [ENCLOSURE] New York, Augustv4th, 1897, Gianni Bettini, Esq., 110 Fifth Avo., New York City. Dear Sir:- Ae cording to my promisa, I writ® you to stat® that if after the end of the first year I have not succeeded in selling 250 of your Micro-Reproducers or Recorders, as a minimum number and you are dissatisfied with the conduot of the business by reason of that number of machines not having been sold, I will then arrange with you either for a readjustment or a cancellation of my contract. Yours very truly. (Sgd.) S. F. Mori arty. New York, November 6th, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- Your Personal letters of October 29th and 30th, have Just been received this morning, and I hasten to write you a few lines before the mail close*. Your letters are most interesting, and as a matter of coursa I will do everything possible to assist Mr. Searles, if he desires it, but you know he does not let me sea the communications he gets from the Phonograph Works often, and they are simply dismis ed with a few words, but the matters contained in your letters, are highly important, and I shall do all I can. When you send the Frospeotue on, I hope you will at the same time, send one tr. me, because I can talk so mueh better to Mr. Searlee, when I have an opportunity of familiarizing myself, before I see him, as you know from your own experience, it is more difficult to make suggestions, and note the different points, when it is simply disouBsed in a hasty manner in his office, and he may not see fit to let me have it for any length of time. What a great business the EdisoneBell oould have done if they had only given it attention, and how much oredit it does you to have accomplished all these things, and I should think that some people would feel ashamed of themselves for the bnfWkreefitieisms of you when you are able to achieve such results in the face of all the obstacles you have met. I shall try to induce Mr. Searles to take some action here against the araphophone peoplt. _ I want to tall you a little circumstance in connection with an order. cM/ertf< 777e0ma4J& (Tfotrbvnt S. 7li77lvM0ni $ccrr/arii. Q>tc/l/mi/77^7/fonarty, Zue-Zlrjuiini J?/Umwry Sltra-.ler' 7$>if/im/v7/L7"tt/i:f JZaMumK Orange, N. J. Dear Sira:- A Mr. J. B. Tuoker, oalled upon ub yesterday, and stated that he had purchased a "Home* Phonograph for the National Phono¬ graph Company, at Orange, New Jersey, and that they had referred him to us for future supplies. Mr. Tucker has informed us that he notified them that the Phonograph was to be taken to the West Indie Islands, and that such notification was given before he left the office. We therefore protest against the shipment of imohines to our territory, and request an explanation of the transaction. Mr. Edison has written us that Phonographs are not shipped to our territory, and we refer you to his letters to us of June 10th, and October 20th, 1897. We request such reparation for this shipment, as the justioe of the oase demands, and a further assurance that you will aid us in the protection of our territory, as will insure to us all orders for goods for export, and that you will explain to your customers before filling an order fbr Phonograph and Supplies, that if ihe Goods are to go to foreign territory, you desire to give us [ENCLOSURE] v$.$rMrleti. 7H-c.ui/ciif, 'i/i/ww eF/toreor/ty. 7&? Fmu/cnfi & 7/77brr/dWt/, Secretary. 0 the benefit of the order, and therefore refer them to u [ENCLOSURE] COPY. John E. Searles, Esq., Prasident, 117 cWall St., New York City. Dear Sir:- New York, Novr: 5th, 1897. On November 1st, Mbbbhb, Kuehnhardt & Company of this City, gave us an order for One (1) "HOME* Phonograph, but shortly afterwards, countermanded it, and stated that they had purohased the Phonograph up-town, undoubtedly from the Edison Manufacturing Co.m therefore we should receive credit on this machine, as well as on the Phonograph, Records and Supplies shipped to J. B. Tucker. The Phonograph for Kuhnhardt & Company, was for export to our territory, and I will write to Mr. Edison in regard to it. I have an idea that the letter you received, waB due to the faot that on November 3rd, we telephoned Mr. Gilmore, for an Automatic Speaker for Mr. Tuoker, and oalled his attention at the same time to the foot of the goods going to our territory. Will you kindly send me the letter you received, so that I can keep the matter before me. Yours very truly, (Sgd.J 0. N. Moris on, Secretary. 27 WILLIAM STREET. Now:-8th,— 1897-.-^ S. P. Moriarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir:- BBTflNI GOODS. In reply to your favor of October 20th, DeCastro is so inverse to making anything good, that it is like drawing teeth to get it, but we wilik ship the bed-plate for the Duplicator, and he will charge it to us until Mr. Bettini arrives, when he will cancel the charge if Mr. Bettini has no objections. All I can say is, that whether Mr. Bettini objects or not we will not pay the bill. When a man pays $500. for a machine, and cannot get a little thing like that replaoed, it seems rather hard lines. We hope to get it off on Wednesday's steamer, if nob then by the next vessel'. Your 8 very truly. Secretary, New York, November 8th, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. Since writing you last, I have had quite a talk with Mr. Sear lea, and X urged that some action be taken against the Grapho- phone people. He assured me that he would do everything he could Just as soon as he saw some positive indication of business abroad, or that you really had completed something, but, as much as I wish to accomplish something looking to protection of the Company's rights and reparation for injuries done us by the Graphophone Company, I do not think I can induoe Mr. Searles to undertake any law suit until he feplg satisfied that you will sucoeed, however I think your letters received, l^st. Saturday, dated October 29th have caused him to feel more sanguine, and X said to him that the Patents cost an awful amount of money, $500,000. and that we ought to do some¬ thing right off, and that we can have the biggest business in the whole world, if we protect our rights, etc,, and that there they are over there in France taking our business right away from us. Referring to the matter of Tracy, Boardman & Platt, this has been attended to, and it is all right, they have not written and Mr. SearleB says we can have anything we want through them. I wrote you in my last letter that Mr. Searles had heard from the Phonograph Works that they filled an order for a man named Tucker, but he says it was not by letter, and I presume it was by telephone, therefore I cannot send you a copy of it, but I will -2- 860 that wa get credit for the profit on that order. I am afraid that there is aome set baok in regar, order you expected from the German Company, as you have no- cabled it, but I hope it is all right. Mr. Searlee will see about the Multiplex Patents and I gave him "areas* address. Youtb very truly. P. 3. Before I left Mr. Searlee, ha •s soon as he felt he eould do eo. assured me he would go i to the ; yet at onoe, ahead { $ $ea/r/e/), 39wii£mt, & 7U/lm-r,k»u Sccrctwry. ffl»rir,ytJ//u^a/et;77mu,,,,r s. F. Mori arty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir:- /^^/^^^?^^No.vejnbe r_10.th 1 called to see Mr. Dickinson, but he at once declined to do anything, as he preferred to consult Mr. Bettini, whom he expected would arrive with^a'.day, or two, and wrote a letter to De- Castro, telling him the object’ of my visit, and asking when Mr. Bettini would arrive, and I am just in receipt of a letter this morning from Mr. Dickerson to the effect that Mr. Bettini is ex¬ pected here on Thursday, that is to-morrow, and that he will leave the matter over until after he returns. I felt that we might not make much progress assoon as he spoke of writing to DeOastro, becuase I do not think DeCastro is any too friendly to us, and have expressed myself so before. I hope you have seen Bettini, and that we will hear by the next mail that the relationship with Bettini is improved. The object of my visit to Dickerson was to renew the option of the Duplicator Patents and to obtain an option on the Micro-Phonograph Patents, or to come to some satisfactory arrange¬ ment in regard to the Miero-Phonograpfl, for of course we understand that the Duplicator Patents are only incidental to the Micro-Phono- graph Patents. We shall probably see Dickerson arrives. Yours very again after Bettini truly, Secretary. P. 3. I write you the Bickerson was in Washington last week, and we could not see him. • Novr: lltV, 1397. John K. Saariea, Esq«, ljr Wall St-i New Ye-Hc City. Dear SirP- I want to Rive you an idea of what big si ness is being done in the United States in the Phonograph,' as reported to me. The PhonoRraph Works are r.or manufacturingFrom 50 to GO Machines a day, and they are working fay and night, therefore the Phonograph Works ought to be making a goo.d deal of money ntpw, as they are manufacturing a "Bates* machine; and doing other business which pays them well. The National Phonograph Company, /you remember, dismissed Tewksbury, but they have in their employ ,a man named Stevens, wtfho has been instrumental in concluding a certain arrangement with thse music publishers, of Haines and OZtver /fitson, these two men while they have several stores-, X beli*ve art allied, in business in some, way- or other, and they have stores in dll the principal cities in the country. THd. contract < • arrangement consist* in their taking up the Phonograph, and. they proposs^to do a large business in it. As an evidence of this, the National Company *re sen' experts to their different stores, and instructirig their employees -h0W f,° Uae the Monograph, and a man named Dodge to-morrow to Ditaon & Company. Youre very truly,. 4\y , , ^ to Philadelpl*** Secretary. fcarTa-j, ZH-tauAvi/i nr 3~7/t#rea/rty, 7m Z/ku>/mi6 •f/c/rt4 or// @HnxtoKr 3. Km**** , Zh>i'c//m6 Sz/tAmn & Zi/Pfort/ierv $e emieiry. m/JwwJj/lffnartyJfcvM'^nt TfaiX/M/vMfat/e'JZx. Stephen F. Mori arty, Esq., . Edison House, Northumberland Ave* Charing Cross, London, England, Lear Sir:- ± am in receipt of your letters of the Srd.' and 6th, inst., the former covering a blank copy of proposed Prospectus. By the lat¬ ter, I expected to receive the details concerning 'contracts, etoi, and "before this time a cable confirming same, which would have enabled me to take some steps toward securing! the' building of machines, etc,.,, but, as your letters' contain nothing of a definite character, 1 am un¬ able to make any move until, X receive further advices, pending which, I remain yours veryjirulyj' Now York, November 16th, 1897. My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- I e nolo so you a oopy of a letter handed me by Mr. Diokerson. I a aw him to-day, and he informed me that you had not latter seen Mr. Bettini, butthe^had a lot of cables from you, the last one of which stated that you would pay Bettini’ a expenses if he would come over, but it was received just as Bettini was about to sail, therefore it was too late. I asked Mr. Diokerson to give me the dates of hiB Patents for the Duplicator in Great Britain, but he said he did not think the Patents were issued yet, and he could not tell whether the application had been made or not without looking it up, which he declined to do. The letter I enclose you will give you an idea of the stand he and Bettini are taking, as it is a thoroughly unbusiness¬ like letter. We were not able to do anything with Dickerson before Bettini arrived, as explained in a previous letter, and it is quite oertain that we will accomplish nothing now, unless sons money is paid over, or the Patents bought for cash, and I really do not know how much value you place upon them. That is the the Duplicator Patents, also the Micro-Phonograph Patents. I tried to ascertain from Diokerson what his views were or at least what sort of proposition in a general way he would entertain for the Micro-Phonograph Patents, but he would not say anything without consulting Bettini, although he has promised to write me after seeing him. . It wasilate this afternoon when Isaw Mr. Diokerson, therefore I have been unable to communicate with Mr. Searles, since receiving his letter. Dickerson was not aware of the fact that we paid $2000. about, to Bettini for goods, and that will no doubt have some bear¬ ing upon matters whan we next see him, and I shall certainly make a strong point of it. Bettini has brought over with him a lot of orders for "Lyrophones", and he had a lot of orders, or rather orders for 10,000 of them when he was over there, and Dickerson remarked that you had lost your opportunity. I think that Bettini feels that he has evidently been snubbed, at all events he is not pleased, and this is reflected to me through Dickerson. Do you think it wise to antagonise these people? could not more be accomplished on somewhat more conciliatory lineB, but you are over there, and know this business from beginning to end, although 4t makes it difficult for us to accomplish anything with them if you really care to get anything more from them. [ENCLOSURE] DICKERSON & BROWN, Postal Telegraph Bldg 3i>3 253 Broadway. Nov. 15, 1897, 6. N. Mori son. Esq., 27 William St., Vity. My dear Sir:- Mr. Bettini has returned, and after conversation with him, he states that he does not desire to- renew the option to Mr. Moriarty without payment. I think he would renew the option for three months on the payment of $5,000. of which $2500 might be credited to apparatus. Your 8 truly. (Sgd. ) E. N. Dickerson. $. <§car/&). T/mii/eitt u 'Q* ' . -4 fh- 7^ fare & 7!h7jilo't,tilv, $«r,,K Dear Sir:- Beferring to your inquiry in rrgard to the Gramophone in your letter to Mr. Searles, of November 10th, we do not know of any suit against the Gramophone, and do not believe that any action has been taken againBt them, as Emile Berliner, the Patentee, is also the Patentee of the transmitter in the telephone. You knew the Bells are interested both in the Telephone and the Graphophone, therefore it does not seem likely that the Graphophone Company would fight Mr. Berliner, and I do not think that Edison has. Yours very truly, Secretary. New York, November 22nd, 1897, Sly Dear Mr. Moriarty:- MoChesney called me up on the "pho^e" this morning and stated that Hayes & Lambert had written him that Gilmore had sent a copy of a Decision in regard! to the French Patents, to us, some time ago, and MoChesney wanted a copy of it. I asked if it was for Mr. Searles, he said yes, and that he wanted to give Mr. Hughes a copy of it. He said Hayes was Edison's Attorney. You will doubtless remember, that Hayes represented Tewksbury at one time, but whether he does now or not, I cannot say. The papers that I have relate to the Werner suit, and I do not want to deliver these to MoChesney; they are the only copies I have, and are original certified papers, anyhow I do not know what MoChesney will do with them, and while there may be no possible objection to his having them, still on general principles, I am opposed to so many people discussing the business, especially as j the more he becomes conversant with the business, the more liabilit ; there is to an indiscreet remark to people who are opposed to this Company. Since writing above I called on Mr. Searles at the Bank, and he said he thought that it was due to his having asked MoChesnej,. to look into the French Patents before you went away, and he finally said that I should telephone MoChesney to see him^about it. As the papers I have are in French, and badly written, it will cost at least &i4.nn t.„ , will coat at least #14.00 to have them translated, ani I told Mr. Searles that I did not think it was necessary. There is nothing of importance to write about by this mail. Yours very truly, / / S / / rrz . New York, November 23rd, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty: -PERSONAL. Enclosed please find copy of a letter received this morning from the Works in reply to a letter written them by Mr. Searles, which explains itself. Mr. Searles has just gone to see Mr. Dickinson, but 1 do not anticipate any decisive result as Mr. Searles is not inclined to conclude anything until he has something positive from you in the shape of contracts .or an order. He has made up his mind to this and every time I have talked with him for the last two weeks or so, he has taken this stand, and he did so again this morning, although I induced him to see Mr. Dickerson to-day. Mr. Oxenham talked with Mr. Dolan, who is in town, today over the telephone and told him when he could see Mr. Searlee. Mr. Searles expects to talk with Edison about the French Patents shortly, but I am afraid Mr. Searles is too candid with those people. X told him that the case against Werner, etc., was fought on two Phonograph patents and that they were not the strongest patents this Company owned, the basic patent was the Graphophone. McChesney has just called, and I have handed him the copies of decision in the French suit by Mr. Searles direction, and he lias taken them to Mr. Hughes. X have just learned that Mr. Searles did not keep the -2- •PP.IM™.. »ith Mr. Ma.rm, „„ rtll „„ aoubt M> as Mr. Dickerson will g0 to Mr. Searleso«mce. Your 8 very truly, (L [ENCLOSURE] 'EM SON PHONOGRAPH WORKS, Orange, N. Ji Nov. 22,1897. Edison United Phonograph Co., John E. Searles, Esq., Pres., 27 William St., New York. Dear Sir:- We have your favor of the 20th, and in reply would say that we are not in position to quote you on the type #2 phonograph at the present time. The tools, which are being manufactured under Mr. Edison's personal supervision, have not as yet been completed and until they are completed and turned over to us we can make no quotations. We understand that the tools will be finished within the next week or two, when we will doubtless be in a position to make you prices.;. Your 8 very truly, WEG/tWW. W. E. Gilmore, General Manager. New York, November 26th, 1897. My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. I am in receipt this. morning of your letter of Novr 16th, which I will acknowledge separately, together with copy of letter to Mr. Searlea, dated November 16th. It is a very difficult thing indeed for me to accomplish anything in regard to the Patent matters referred to, when Mr. Searles states that he will attend to the matter. All I can do at present is to see that he does not forget it. MoChesney returned to me this morning, the French copies of the decision of the law suit in Paris, but they evidently have not furnsihed the information they desired, and he said that Mr. Hayes, who is Edison's and Tewksbury's lawyer, had written to him McChesney, that he Hayes, would send MoChesney a copy of the deci¬ sion, which invalidates our Patents. He states however that Gilmore had had it translated, and sent a copy to us some time ago. We never received a copy of the decision referred to, other than those I showed McChesney, and I do not believe they have any other papers. Mr. Searles has not yet met Dickerson, but the appoint¬ ment is now made for Monday, at 3:30 o'clock, P.M. I neglected to say that McChesney left here with the in¬ tention of writing Mr. Hayes to send him the copy of the decision referred to, and if this Company was controlled by me, I would not permit an outside man like that agitating this subject, and keeping it alive before those people. I wish I could do more to help you, but you see how handicapped I am. Youj's very truly, ,, When I called Mr. Searles up this morning, he asked me to “ s ssr^Lt: r.al£r?„:rnh‘"‘ «***- - v ’ f4mM>rt/ Stim/m? Tflmrftn/vMjutt&i fca Dear Sir:- We are duly in receipt of yo.ur. favor of November 10th, in relation to Patenta, a copy of this letter was handed to Mr. Searle* and he directed me to write you, stating I had handed him a copy of the letter, and that would attend to the matter. He also said that he would write you this afternoon. We enclose you copies of the following clippings. WASHINGTON, D. C. POST, November 5th, 1897. RECORDS FOR TALKING MACHINES. NEWARK, N. J. ADVERTISER?November 19th, 1897. 'CHE CONSOLIDATED PHONOGRAPH COMPANIES, LIMITED. Will have offices in 4 PARIS and LONDON. We do not know who these men are, but will try to find out. NEW YORK SUN, November 20th, 1897. THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE COM¬ PANY ARE ENGAGING NEWSPAPER MEN. Edison and Tewksbury are said to me at loggerheads, which may result in a fight. Yours very truly, Secretary. [ENCLOSURE] Washington, D. C. Post. Nov. 5th, 1897. RECORDS FOR TALKING MACHINES. The making of records for talking machines has grown to be a business of large propor¬ tions. What is known as a "record" in the trade is a cylinder on which has been engraved the record of a musical or other performance intended for reproduction. Processes for duplicating records are con¬ trolled by the American Graphophone Company which has entered upon an active campaign against dealers and manufacturers who are Infringing their patents. Action has just been begun by the American Graphophone Com¬ pany in the Northern District of Illin™ 3™,/,,,* Mnor<,&m*0* Itfnt/tnfiJA&ie&jL 27 WILLIAM STREET, Stephan F. Mori arty. Esq., Edison United Phonograph Co. ■ London, England. Lear Sir:- Your letters of the 16th. inst. are received and 1 regret exceedingly that you have not yet sent me the contracts which I have been expecting for so long. Matters at this end are having attention, but nothing can be consummated until X receive from you the contract in due form. I trust it will come by the next mail. Prat/Zcn/t J%0nuUJ& & TlTfamtons dteere&iw o/o Edison United Phonograph Co. London, England. Dear Sir:- 1 am in receipt this morning of your '‘Personal" letter of the 19th. inst, X am more than surprised that you should withhold until this late date the terms of your negotiations. According to your letter, you have gone forward and perfected the organization of a Company and have already secured the consent of three-fourths of the shareholders of the Edison-Bell Company and arranged the underwriting for a new cor¬ poration, thus completing in the utmost ' detail a new deal which vitally affects the Edison United Phonograph Co. here and the failure to carry out which would embarrass you and all parties concerned and yet you have never submitted to the President of the Company the details of these proposed contracts. It is something unprecedented in my exper¬ ience and X confess to no little surprise that you should have gone to such an extent without consulting me as to details. . You dwell upon the strict accountability to which people here are to be held for fail¬ ure to carry out your suggestions and seem to ignore the fact that they may have ideas as well as interests in the matter which are entitled to consideration and which might have been, helpful to you in modification of your ideas. Understand me, I have no doubt you are doing the best you can in all these negotiations to carry out what is in your judgment the best thing for the Ctapany, but X insist that it will be only right and proper that you should reinforce yourself with the judgment of others as to these propositions before committing yourself to them to such ex¬ tent. Your cable which came to hand on Saturday states that import¬ ant papers came forward by that day's boat, awaiting which X remain. $/:ar/<:d 7h:nrhn£ tut' 3~7?tona/rti/, T&c 7&a u/nutc JSfeWy Sk reetoK' 73. Tlifllproknv $ecnta,ri/. ffludw/v/M^a/a J7c,u LLI AM STREET. ^ber-30-th— 18^$' ’ ‘No-vembeT^OthT- i'8l is; S, F. Morlarty, Esq., London, England. Dear Sir:- Referring to your letter of November 20th, we have order ed the EDISON records, and will advise you of shipment, 'Then they are ready. Referring to your letter of November 20th, we note that you announce the practical completion of the negotiations for the re-organized Edison-Bell Cor: etc/, as well as the other matters mentioned in your letter, and we congratulate you upon the success¬ ful outcome of your endeavors. PRANCE. Referring to-your letter of November 16th, which was received at the same time as your letter of November 20th, we note all you say in regard to the French Fatentractions in Prance, but the copies of letters addressed by you to Mr. Theodore Seligman, dated November 2nd, 1894 and 22nd March 1895, were not sent us in the following mail as stated. I will look up the data as suggested, with a view to re¬ freshing my memory, and realize that if certain suggestions of New York, November 30th, .1897. My Bear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL . I saw Mr. Searles yesterday morning, and he had tfust received your letter of November 19th. Mr. Searles is beginning to feel that he has no hand in the work on the other side, and your present letter has made him feel that he is nothing more than "a bump on a log" as he expressed it, and says he is not accustomed to doing business that way, but he seems to have laid most stress on the fact that you have not yet sent him the Agreements, or consulted him in segdrd to them , and you know he has always been in the habit off running things his own way in all Companies in which he is interested, except this one, and he informed me that he had written you rather a sharp letter, which he permitted Mr. Oxenham to show to me, although I did not see it until this morning, and he is out of town to-day. &Jr There is no question^that he was put out, and he thinks with good reason, taking the view that you expect him to do things and see there is no delay on this side of the water, when he has not had an opportunity of judging whether the contracts you are making, are in his judgement, satisfactory. The next to the last clause looks aB if he thought he migT&l have said too much, and reads more conciliatory.. I had but five minutes or less with him yesterday, after j waiting for three quarters of an hour, although I had made an ap¬ pointment with Mr. Searles himself, and I had to talk while he was j standing up with his desk closed, ready to start the moment I finished. While there I asked his consent to order the Multiplex machines referred to in your letter of November 20th, which he at first declined to assent to, but I showed him that there was nothing to be gained by delay, and you should have them as qudckly as possible, and finally he gave ma permission to order them. If Mr. Searles had co-operated with you fully, in all probability he would have been consulted more freely, but he be¬ came impatient of the delay, and said a number of times, that he doubted whether you would be able to accomplish anything, in faet, he has doubted that you would suoceed from the start, and has shown, and I believe written you, that he would do nothing until he had some positive knowledge that the contracts were executed, therefore you were left alone to work out your success. There are other reasons for not showing these Contracts which I realize. Yours very truly. Act CL t/J&i JDfreefa -H Afjfa Sduihc-AfeM /Cuyafa (cL^cyaAcific /lux^cjej, Ae&pt ccC $eh'UiAsce. /AzuZtnc^ti)r6> . /ticjfynA cty yjdj&ecaAfy /^7 /?/' //tcryuz/Ay ee. yd, dy/cLh' CUL^/Ay CtUiy &CLCC Ate, ^C(J^^c^^cAflc>/ A Any foal }L^fiuc?tau^C At. QyjijU ^aS' A &lc Au* '0(jU*y Co,a& tfjcucy /aJxjtzu, A> AhcAccJ- Ate } /&&t&{7 Ac^/6A> &iay>cuiy . }eu, /o 6a dcccctccu? ^ Atyet hcLynA&* l ALA daAA, ^ (/ CL . /rug 8&/rac/^ t{3^' 'C/>LCLt^' rfLda^. New York, December 1st, 1897. My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- Mr. Gress called to see Mr. Searles about ten days ago, by appointment, and Mr. Searles told me that he had given him (Grass) something to think about. Grass agreed to see Mr. Searles again last Friday, but did not keep his appointment, therefore when your letter of Novr: 20th, came in, I gained Mr. Searles consent to order two Multiplex and told him i^would give me an opportunity of ascertaining why Grass did not keep his appointment. I have been trying for two days to find Mr. Gress, and met him this morning. I had an hours talk with him, and have gotten him in a good frame of mind to commence a negotiation fbr the sale of the Patents. His idea was to keep all of his Patents together intact, ’ but I made several suggestions with a view to finally bringing about the sale to us of his Patents at a low enough price, and shall see Mr. Searles before he meets Gress. I told him^frat in selling the Patents to us, he must remember that he must make the price low and fully realize that we j own Patents all over Europe for not only the Phonograph but the basic Patent for Engraving on Wax, and that we shall be in a posi- j tion to do more good for him in the sale of his Machine than any other Corporation can possibly be. He now believes this, and when 1 left hin> he qeemeq to be in sufi>1 a good huBor that notwithstandin j the fact that he has but one sample machine of the clock-motor type for the Multiplex made, and which he showed me, he promised to put some men to work at once, and make me one to send to London. This machine has some new ideas in it. When you lift the Arm, to revolve the five cylinders, it at the same time brings the Arm back to the starting place, and the record I heard, without even any hom or tube on the Diaphragm, produced a very loud sound. He will also make me one of the weight motor multiplex machines, as he has none in stock; because he has made some altera¬ tions and improvements in it. I expect to ship you one of the usual electric motor Multiplex machines, probably by next steamer. If we can bu^ the Patents at a low price, Gress would have no objection to this fompany manufacturing the Multiplex abroad but he would naturally want, either to manufacture them himself/^t^ and take a manufacturers profit, or if manufactured abroad cheaper he thinks he should be entitled to something in lieu of his manu¬ facturers profit, in other words, if he sells us the Patents, he wants to derive some income out of the manufacture. All this however is only a preliminary talk, and my main idea was to make him feel that we were not taking advantage of him, and that it would be worth his while to let us have these Patents i on such terms as would satisfy us. I could not get the dates of his applications for Patents in Europe, but his Patents ii> the United, States were applied for about a year and a half ago, and since then, in fact I infer that it has not been very long ago, he has made applications for Patents in Great Britain, Prance and Germany. He Patents everything, and he now has the three styles, the ordinary Multiplex Phonograph, the Weight-Motor Automatic Phonograph and the Clock-motor Phonograph, which I think he said would run ten cylinders. 1 will make an appointment with Mr. Searles for the afternoon or to-morrow to see Mr. Grass. X have but a few minutes to catch the steamer, therefore must close. Your cable of yesterday has not yet been shown to Mr. Searles, as he was away, and X cannot see him to-day beibre a quarter before one. The Works have written Mr. Searles that they hope withOn the next week or ten days, to know whether the tools for the No. 2 Phonograph are in every way satisfactory. The Works write to Mr. Searles, and he has not seen the letter yet, that should we place an order with them they could arrange to give us a production of not Isbs than ten machines per day, or if necessary increase the production to not less than 20 per day, and they shall be very glad to enter an order for us for a quantity of these machines. ]/ -> _ ./ - ^0//n/(§.<$e(Vrtt!d. THiTPlm'OiOIV, (Secretary. <£fo/l/uyw3’7/Mru»rty, 7fa it .rfeUilorySttratee' T London, England. Dear Sir:- CONFI RMATION OP CABLE. We beg to confiim the following cable sent you yesterday. PHONOGRAPH, LONDON. DECEMBER 1st, 1897. REMITTED MORGAN CHANTRESS SHIPWRIGHT REFUSED TO REMIT APPLICA* TIONS PATENTS MULTIPLEX MADE DRIPSTONE DRIVELLED DRONEBEE WEIGHT MOTOR MOT COMPLETED RUMPLED ELECTRIC MOTOR. MORISON. Translation. REMITTED MORGAN $2500. JOHN E. SEARLES REFUSED TO REMIT APPLI¬ CATIONS PATENTS MULTIPLEX MADE UNITED KINGDOM FRANCE GERMANY WEIGHT MOTOR NOT COMPLETED WILL SHIP ELECTRIC MOTOR. Yours very truly. Secretary. w$.<§cm-U 7k, 3Zm,"Ut< Jtkimy Smduf T&tU/tm/irflL’/uU/* 3Z, M LLI AM STREET. S. F. Moriarty, Esq., London, Ragland. Dear Sir:- /^av^or/r/xiM^jz ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OP C ART.E. We beg to acknowledge receipt of the following cable. London, December 1st, 1897. UNI PHONE, N. Y. AS NO RESPONSE I OFFER ADVANCE HALF IF SHIPWRIGHT ‘’S WILL OTHER ANYWAY GET THREE BONDS IMMEDIATELY FROM SHIPYARD BORROW UFANARSE SHIVERING MEALTIME LIBRARIAN EDISONBELL TODAY PASSED RESOLUTION AUTHORISING SALE NEW COMPANY. Which we translate as follows:- AS NO RESPONSE I OFFER ADVANCE HALF IF JOHN E. 3EARLES WILL OTHER ANYWAY GET THREE BONDS IMMEDIATELY FROM J. T. MORIARTY BORROW $2500. WESTERN NATIONAL BANK REMIT BY CABLE TRANSFERS. IMPORTANT THAT THIS MATTER HAS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. EDISONBELL TODAY PASSED RESOLUTION AUTHORISING SALE NEW COMPANY. YOURS VERY TRULY, SECRETARY. New York, December 2nd, 1897. My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. Referring to your personal letter of November 20th, I note what you say in regard to the price for the House, 95 Park Avenue, but I have instructed the Agents not to refuse any offer, no matter what it is, without first communi eating with me. Golding yesterday took a man around to the House, a very desiragle party, but he wants to look at two or three other Houses before he decides to make an offer. I have not given up hope entirely of renting the House to Mrs. Warren, bht nothing can be doner until Mr. Morgan returns, when I will call on him, if necessary, I note that you want me to take every measure to protect your interests here, and that I can consult Mr. Boardman, if it should become necessary. So far nothing has occurred which would make it necessary for me to see him, but I am glad to know this, and if I am kept sufficiently advised by Mr. Searles of what he is doing, your interests cannot suffer, but this is just where the difficulty comes in, as I have written you before, Mr. SearleB wants to do j everything himself, and sometimes, rather resents any interference ! on my part, or I should say any suggestions on my part, for in- j stance, the accompanying lstter recites an interview I had with Mr. Gress, but when I saw Mr. Searles he out me off and would not listen ' to all I had to say, claiming that he had seen JMr,. Grass, and int&l -2- matod thajt : ha had made up his mind what ho was going to do.. I think he makes a mistake in this, as I wanted to point out that we owned the Patents abroad, and Mr. Gress could not use his machine if we objected, although it would cost us money to stop him, there¬ fore it would be worth while to buy the patents, and. •possibly let him do the manufacturing in order that he might get some income out of it, because it is certain that we cannot get them for nothing, and it is necessary that everything in business must be to a cer¬ tain extent, mutual, to be a success, and Gress has now three good machines, and I left him in just such a frame of mind, as would enable Mr. Searles to make some satisfactory arrangement with him, and if he does not, it will be because he does not want to pay out any money. You write that you want me to take occasion to relieve fullest any false prejudice, and to have the faith in what you write, There is no question in my mind, that you have accoomplished a big work over there, and X am -ifirmly convinced that it will be success ful, therefore it does not require any stretch of my belief to: have faith in what you write, and you can rej.y upon my aid as I certainly must have shown you in my letters, that X am doing all I can to help you to success. Mr. Dickerson saw Mr. Searles last week, and Mr. Searles said to me to use his own words "Mr. Dickerson wants me to go in with him on some of those things in a way which is broader than the patent matter* Mr. Searles however did not give me any idea as to what it was. Mr. Grass had an appointment with him to-day, and I will try to get an idea of what was done. Referring to your Sables of November 30th and December 16, ZhunAutfi JTtOruM 72t2?iev»iOMf dttenfary. $tc/l/«rt/ ^7/tona/rtl/, Mvitory Sjireetor' 70rd/im/l,7/L7"M/e! ,77mwrt:r: Dear Sirt- Enelosed please find copy of letter from the Phono¬ graph Works, relating to your order of Novr: 13th, for 5,000 Cy¬ linders, y/hich explains itself. In regard to the musical records, ordered in your favor of Novr: 20th, we will obtain these early next v^eek, and try to forward them on Wednesday’s steamer December 8th. Our reason for ordering them from the Works, was, that we have tried to avoid dealing directly with the National Company. Enclosed please find letter from Charles Hertig, Lausanne sent us by the Edison Manufacturing Co. Yours very truly. Secretary, [ENCLOSURE] EMI SON PHONOGRAPH WORKS? Orange, N. J. Dee. 3, 1897. Edison United Phonograph Co.,. G. N. Morison, Esq., See., 27 William St., New York. Dear Sir:- We have your flavor of Nov. 30th, regarding order for blanks. We are very much overrun and I am now arranging to dobble up our capacity, but orders entered ahead of yours will have to have priority before we can make shipment o*V>ecount of this ord0r> We hope, however, to make shipment o^a portion of the order next week. We refarn you herewith your order # 403. This Company has nothing whatever to do with the manuihcture of records. These records are made by the National Phonograph Co., and we would suggest that you cancel the order as against us and send an order in to the Ntional Co. Yours very truly. WEG/LWW W. E. Gilmore, 8 General Manager. New York, December 6th, 1897, Sly Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. Referring to your letter of November 27th, with copy of letter to Mr. Searlea attached, I went down to see Mr. Searles this morning, and he said well what have you got, I replied that I had a copy of a letter he received from Mr. Moriarty this morn¬ ing. Mr. Searles then said something to the effect that it was unsatisfactory that it did not tell anything about the contracts, eto., well I said Mr. Searles, the letter needs a cable reply, arri Mr. Moriarty telegraphs, he^said^s* Mr Moriarty telegraphed that the Edison-Bell had approved of the sale, but I do not know what they approved of. I then replied that I had been thinking over 'the letter since it was received, and that my idea was this, that the Syndicate- will get L150,000 out of the Capital and pay the United Company L40,000 in cash, with £50,000Ato the new Company for working capital and that the remainder of the Shares, 3ay £200,000 will come to us and we will have to deal with the Edison-Bell people independently, that my idea would be to give the Edison-Bell people £40,000 in Shares, which would pay them for their holdings in the present Edison-Bell Company, with £12,000 additional to pay them for the I debentures, making a total of £52,000. in Shares, that while I do j not think they should be reimbursed for those Debentures by us, yet ! in order to put this sale through, I would advocate it, because over to ' the Edison-Bell people will turn and other things of value, that we are not offering anything for, and that as an offset to that, we are supplying the new Bompany with Patents of the Multiplex and Micro-phonograph, which the Edison Bell Company will reap the benefit of, through their Shares. Mr. Searles said, but we do not own the Multiplex Patents I replied that Mr. Cress was coming to see him this afternoon at four o’clock, and that I have gotten him in just such a frame of mind, as I thought would enable Mr. Searles to accomplish something with him, and X proposed cabling you at once, if notnaccording to the i . . date,. so tft'at lie cofllf.deci'&j at^once wgat to do in the matter. ...e above ideas at least, to^et something positive from you to aft. up a cable , consequently I have cabled you this morning, and hope to receive a reply to-morrow morning, which will enable Mr. Searles to act at The matter seems clear enough to me, but Mr. Searles does not know just how much of the sale, or rather in what manner tte Edison-Bell approved of I **ld him that the Multiplex and Micro-phonograph Patents were included in the sale, but he thought not, bu t your letter of November 23rd seems to be convincing, and I am sending him, this afternoon, a copy of. that portion on page 7 relating to it, although I handed him a full copy of that letter. He wanted to know what you were doing with Stollwerok, 8nd 1 t0ld him Stollwerqk frag not yet a^eptag tfta proposition, but j -3- that I had written you, personally, that my own idea was, that it would be the same now with Mr. Stollwerck, as it was formerly, that nothing would be accomplished with him, until an ultimatum was give-w. and he was ibroed to do one thing or the other, I know that these are your ideas, and Mr. Searles said that he would write you about that matter by this mail. I shall say to MR. Searles that the Edison-Bell should realize that any Shares of Stock which they receive in the new Company would be worth 14 1/4 % more than the^v# face value immed¬ iately after the 150,000 wf working capital was paid in, and on 152, 000 it would increase the valuation of those Shares to 159425, at which is the more actual figure. Mr, Searles said in referring to remarks about the Deben¬ tures, you see Moriarty has said those Debentures were all paid off, 1 said yes, he thought so, but my idea of the matter now that we iearn they still owe 112,390. is that thesEdison-Bell paid off 18,200. of Debentures with the exception of 11680.9.0 to December 31st, 1896, and 1 showed the Report of the Edison-Bell to that daiS» as I had it with me, and that it must have been a surprise to Mr. Moriarty to learn that they still owed 112,300. at the pre¬ sent time. | Boardman does not know either Mr. Annan or the Anglo American Debenture Co. of london. and is not their Attorney. Mr. Searles Baid he would make some intffulryvc Stephen F. Mori'arty, Esq., Edison United Phonograph Co. London, England. 6th, _ //Ml_ Dear Sir:- Your letter of the 87th. ult. is received and has had my very careful attention. X have read and re-read it hoping to get some definite 'basis for cabling you. Your message of the 1st. inst., four days subsequent to. yqur letter, states: "Edison Bell today passed Resolution authorizing sale new Company". I assume that in passing this resolution the tormB of the sale were fixed and in the absence of any advices as to what these terms were I cannot cable ah answer. ry oil therefore directed Mr. Morri¬ son, this morning, to send you a message asking for the terms and hope to receive your reply tomorrow morning. I am at a loss to understand how the negotiation could have proceeded so far without a definite basis for it from the Edison-Bell Co. as it would seem that this must have been necessary as underlying the entire negotiation. Of course it would be impossible for us to as¬ sent to their taking the $40,000. in money and we simply taking shares. However, your cable of tomorrow will doubtless make everything clear and I hope the negotiation will go through and your new promoters prove to be more reliable and aggressive than Mr. Smith and his associates. j/e/ugS. <$f:ar/a). 74-t.uc/enf: 3Komaij& dk&bem & Mftlmvtom <§erreitirtt ©fc/t/wir 7m Ziwirlsni Mmaort/ SDinetof' W>n(/vm/i,7M77H///ci 3^«M„n I have no doubt that you axe doing the best you can and X sis oerely hope yqur success will be complete, but in the absence of any more definite cable from you I am very anxious as to the result. I have had interviews with both Mr. Gress and Mr. Dickerson, regarding the "Multiplex" and "Bettini" machines. I have two propo¬ sitions from each, but cannot tell which it is best to consummate until I learn the result of your negotiations abroad. I find nothing in my letter about the German situation, hence fear you are having more trouble with Stollwerck. I shall be more than glad when the anxiety attaching to this business gives place to some definite businesslike agreements under which we can proceed intelligently. Awaiting your further advices, I remain 7 Anm**** &***? S. F. Moriarty, Ksq., London, England. Dear Sir:- Referring to your favor of November 20, X regret to say that the Multiplex Machines, which I hoped to ship you by this Steamer, cannot go, because a Mr. C..T. Stockman, the Patent Lawyer for Mr. Grass in Washington, telegraphed to Mr. Gress, December Gth as follows: - "Foreign Company must not have machine«until I advise you". This is due to the fact that they are making applications for Patents and have applications pending, and are therefore afraid to have any of their machines operated abroad, until they are grant¬ ed. Grass's son says they are being very carefully and thoroughly patented, so that they will be well protected. You have however one single machine in London, and when Mr. Gress's son told me about the telegram I think he was really glad something happened to stop the shipment, although the machine I ordered, he says, is all ready to go, and I believe I would have gotten it, if Mr. Searles had seen Mr. Gress yesterday, and had made him feel that we meant business^ but he has failed to meet Mr. now, long enough to talk business, and I should Searles three times -2- think that he wulfljfeel disappointed to say the least, especially after I had assured him that Mr. Searles would certainly see him. Grass's Son has been very frank indeed at times, but as I intimated in a previous letter, he is suspicious, and we should do nothing to give him cause for this, if we want to buy the patents. Yours, very truly, .S /S-K t. i 'j, er-y t. — Se ere tar y • New York, December 7th, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- I stopped at Mr. Cress's office this morning, and learned from his son, that he did not meet Mr. Searles yesterday at four o'clock. He waited at Mr. Searles office until fiveo'clock for him, but he did not come in, although I had called Mr. Searles attention to the engagenent in the morning, but I presume he must have been detained. I Ml} try to make another appointment, althoU0h I tool convinoed that Mr. Saar}.. Mil put d.inB an.thin, i„ regard to the Multiplex and Mi.r.phonogr.ph Patent, until oloaed Mth the *n»li«, Company, „„ po„,lbly I think Mr. Searles 1. Mitins ,ou at thi. moment, p.r. ticularly in regard to Gem.ny, ,„d j .urprl„a_ ,f hi. .i.. or .olution of ,h,t .otaa .0„ee„,rat. i,»,i, into a demand for the amount due hy the German Company, regard- less of all else, X have no reason for this supposition, except that Mr. Searles is anxious that some money should be paid in. ! In regard to the Multiplex Machines, I will write you under separate cover. Hew York, December 8th, 1897, My Dear Mr. Moriarty:- PERSONAL. We have not yet received a reply to the cable sent you, and Mr. Searles has asked twice about it. I was obliged to show him the cable, and he was very much provoked at me for cabling the part about L52,000. Shares, he said "You had no business to do that without my authority, I don't want you to give him any suggestions. You know the kind of a man you have to deal with". I do not know whether you will agree with Mr. Searles, or not, but I said to him that I thought the reason of the delay was dJfcLto the fact that probably Mr. Smith was not in London, but would be there his usual day Wednesday, in addition to which there is a mail due to-morrow morning, and we may get all the information necessary. I think that Mr. Searles wants to be better informed in regard to the contracts, and I only hope that the cable I sent you will not prevent Mr. Searles giving me what information I require in future, but I have been expecting some trifling thing that I might; do to irritate him, as he is in just such a frame of mind in ! regard to this business , and it is very difficult indeed to act with perfect discretion, situated as I am. I enclose you a copy of a letter I obtained from Mr. dress, and when Mr. Searles read it, he said "Oh that does not \ i . IL tUnount to anytt,ing> frut I explai tp hi^ amount to antyhhing, but I explained to him, that it did, because we do not want Gross to sell his Patents to the Graphophone people, or anyone else, until we have a chance buy. them. Referring again to the cable I feel worried over it, but it probably does not amount to anything, and I think that I did the right thiitg':in sending just such a cable to youip and another thing I do not like the latter remark he made about you. You know, as I have said before, Mr. Searles is very jealous indeed of anybody having anything to dovwith this business, as the head, except himself. very truly, A 7- ? ri&t.tCtParr-O' 1 favorable reply from you, this little incident will probably amount to nothing. [ENCLOSURE] MULTIPLEX PHONOGRAPH CO. New Zealand Building, B'way & 37th St., N. Y. Dec. 7, 1897. G. W. Morrison, Sec., 27 Williams St., City. My Dear Sir:- I am 3orry that I was not in this morning when you called but I write to assure you that you and your company shall have the first consideration for all fdreign business of all our patents and inventions upon the Multiplex and platform motor, which now is about complete and will be put under a test for thirty days in order to find any deficientcies before placing any large orders for the manuf actureing of them. As soon as it is put in use the writer will call on you and carry you over and show you it in working operation. Hoping this letter is satisfactory, I remain. Your 8 very truly, . (Sgd.) G. V. Gress Prest. Jo/m-S. 4‘r:m7/M, Thau/mt <§/&o/h & <$ ontmrg. <$te/l/mi'3T7/^riatty, I£» 7irMWr,n/< jtfdvium, S)ireOoK' Ttfnt/iw/MXu/ei Jnmun Dear Sir!- • CONFIRMATION OF CABLE. We bag 'to confiim the following cable setn you this clay. PHONOGRAPH, LONDON. MAGICAL CONTRIVING SHIPWRIGHT LIONSLEAF SALT? AS STANDS ELDERWORT WHAT WILL SATISFY T5DI SONBELL I ASK PERSONALLY QUIBBLING ORGANIC TROCHILIC TRIUNFADA' SHART?S QUICKENED REASSERT POSITIVE MULTIPLEX SHEEPISH EQUANIMITY INCLUDED IN SALE WITHOUT RESERVE BOARDMAN RECONVEY ANNAN. MORISON. - Translation - HAVE RECEIVED YOUR LETTER NOVEMBER 27th JOHN E. SEARLES . TELEGRAPH FULL PARTICULARS SALE AS STANDS TODAY. WHAT WILD SATISFY EDISONBELL I ASK PERSONALLY IF THEY WILL ACCEPT £52,000. SHARES IF YOU CANNOT DO BETTER. IS IT POSITIVE MULTIPLEX, MICROPHONO¬ GRAPH PATENTS INCLUDED IN SALE WITHOUT RESERVE. BOARDMAN KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANNAN. Yours very truly. S. (SearZ/xl. 3%omaiJ& (Bifamt & TZffimitont dltenitiru; (§/c/i/wit' //lewarty, 7mr Zhau&ni Mvtimy SUmclmf 7$nt/ire>/iJ/L’fa///ei3r«m,mK 27 WILLIAM STREET, Mr. Stephen F. Mori arty, Edison United Phonograph Co. : London, England. My dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your letter of the 1st. inst., which X have read very carefully with all the accompanying documents. It is not clear as to what will' be left for this Company after the Edison-Bel people and the Underwriters have been satisfied. It seems, on the face of it, that we are to get comparative¬ ly a small proportion after .putting in so large a number of foreign patents. However, by your cable received today I note that everything will be submitted when your final effort has been made to protect our interests and it will then be time enough to go over the matter. I • trust these advices may come very soon. Mr. Morrison has sent me a copy of your letter to Stollwercjc which I have also carefully .read. X am entirely at a loss to under¬ stand the course of this gentleman if he really intends to do the busi¬ ness, but concerning this also we should have definite advices by the next mail. I hope to hear i^hat your trip to Paris ful and awaiting your further advices, I remain has also been success- Yours very truly. A New York, December 10th, 18S7* My Dear Mr. Mori arty:- PERSONA! . Referring to my lettemio you laat week, in whieh I Btdtad that Mr. Searlea was provoked at my sending thd cable to you or rather that portion of it relating to the !52b0o., 1 write dimply to riiy that it is all right now. Your o&ble-o£ December 10th, was ahown to Mr. Searlea this morning, I ymt him Oh the street oomihg from hie office with IWOhesney, and he put the eopy of the kable in. hie pocket, and made no comment. 1 suppbee *e trill hear from yOu-by cable when all the money hap been procured, aa. to how much the Company will receive in Caeh and Share*. Youro very truly, New York, December 14th, 1897,. My Dear Mr. Moriarty: -PERSONAL. I will acknowledge your letter of Decentosr 3rd, in another letter, but I want to aay to you that I have tried to dle- oues the matters referred to with Mr. Searles, when I handed him a copy of your letter thle morning. He was bo buey however, that he simply glanced over the first page, and 1 think it must have annoyed him, tor he folded it up lnanediatelf, and said that he would look It over this afternoon, that he had not time now, but I had written a letter to Mr. stoll- werek, which I then handed to him, a copy of whieh I enoloae, beoause I thought It might be a suggestion, and had no idea of sending it off, without hia approval, and told him that it should be sent to you, beoause we did not know what had progressed in the matter slnee you wrote your letter, but in reply to ray suggestion that it would have greater -effect if he sign the letter instead of ns, he said •You hava no right to send sueh a letter off; of eourse •you; will have to sign it if it goes at S'. Prcw/aiC <§(*//. /ur/t/ 3~7/hma/rti/, 7&r, ZJm»fi & 7llfflnrtiom Sarrctrin/. &/t/wn- tFT'/ltma/fy, ZlatWcnt J&bumy SHnOmf ZA7n/Am/i,77i^/Ax Jmu 27 WILLIAM STREET, Mr. S.E.Moriarty, London, Eng. Dear Sir: I am utterly at loss to understand the course of Mr. Stollwerk concerning the German oontraots. 1$, seems to me that he is tripling with you In this matter and it is time that an end is put to suo& petty con¬ duct on his part, when so important interests are involved. I think you should immediately withdraw the propositions made, him for a modification of his contraot and prooeed either to the oarrying out of the contraot as originally made in all its details, or its forfeiture in order that new arrangements can be made. I have a party here who expresses himself as only too anxious to take up the business for Germany and Ai stria on a large scale and push with promptness and vigor. Something must be done, and that immediately. Please lose no time in communicating with Mr.stollwerk and bringing matters to a focus. Deo. 16th. 1897 /AM jk/'W S. Sjy.l/f/ei'). 7Jm<iircc(or? .£? UfflcMon $ei;ir,(drif. 7/7//{/l /Y*/r 7//. ///e, C/matt.m M.LLIAM STR.EET, • only to proceed along the lines directed in my letter to bring Mr.stoll- werk to terms, or to abrogate hie oontraot and enable us to make a new negotiation, it oertainly is time that this trifling ceased. As to the Russian business , if you can make such an arrangement as that indicated with Mr. Zimmerman you are at liberty to do so, provided he is a responsible party -and the interest we have in the sales can be properly guarded and secured. j Your last lettei? says nothing about the situation of tte P ranch negotiation, concerning whioh I hope to hear something by the next op¬ portunity. Yours tnriyy^ _ j i ' . . ■ . P.S. Since writing the above I am in. receipt of your cable reading “Pinal arrangement & completed yesterday9 whioh X understand to refer to the London contracts, and I lost no time In wiring you my congratula¬ tions and wishing you a Merry Christmas, whioh I hereby oonfirm. My Dear Mr. Moriarty: I am in receipt of your letter of the Slst . inst . with copy of amended prospectus, the principal feature in which seems to be the reduotion of the capital stoch by 60,000 Pounds. I av/ait by steamer due tomorrow confirmation of your cable of the 23rd. that the final contract had been completed, pending reoeipt of which and wishing you a happy new year I remain In connection with the contracts between the Edison United Phonograph Co., the Edison Phonograph Works and Thomas A. Edison, the following contentions are made: That the agreement of March 11th, 1890, with the Edison Phonograph Works and Thomas A. Edison has not been carried out in all the essen¬ tial and valuable features by the Edison United Phonograph Co., for the reason- Eirst. That the Edison Phonograph Works have not had the exclu¬ sive right of manufacturing phonographs , that the Columbia Phonograph Co. or American Graphophone Co. have openly been manufacturing and selling phonographs abroad and have agents and houses for the sale of such machines abroad and do a large business there, and that this ' business has been going on for several years without protest or legal proceedings being taken by the Edison United Phonograph Co. to restrain such sales, so far as the Edison Phonograph Works know, notwithstanding they (the Edison United Phonograph Co.) have contract rights with the original proprietors of the graphophone patents, all contrary to Section 1 of the contract. If the contract with the Volta Co. was not exclusive, then the Edison Phonograph Works have been deceived and the Edison United Phono¬ graph Co. did not transfer any exclusive license, as it pretended to do. Second. That the Edison Phonograph Works acquired the works of the Edison United Phonograph Co. at Hartford and paid for the same, | although of no value to the Edison Phonograph Works other than as an 1 insisted upon measure for obtaining the sole right to -manufacture for j., foreign countries the graphophone patents. Third. That for eight years continuously the Edison United Phono- ^ graph Co. have through its officers and agents repeatedly promised to give the Edison Phonograph Works large orders for phonographs and that it was endeavoring to work all the countries covered by the contract, and such statements made from time to time have caused the Edison Phonograph Works to hold its machinery in readiness to fill such orders, but with the exception of a few orders employing a portion of the machinery of the Works for six months, no manufacturing has been done, to the great injury of the Edison Phonograph Works, who were compelled to hold several hundred thousand dollars* worth of machinery etc. that it could be in a position to fulfill its contracts. Fourth . That the Edison United Phonograph Co. have repeatedly refused to sell or supply phonographs to the public even in countries where there are no patents. Fifth. That the Edison Phonograph Works are informed that con¬ trary to the provisions of Section 3 of the contract withThomas A. Edison, several foreign patents owned by the Edison United Phonograph Co. have been allowed to lapse, from failure to carry out the mandates of the law in such countries, to the injury of the Edison Phonograph Works. Sixth. That, so far as known, no suits for infringement against the users or sellers of graphophones have been brought in Europe, which is contrary to Section 6 of the agreement with Thomas A. Edison— that if such suits have been brought they have not been called to the attention of Thomas A. Edison, which is also contrary to Section 6. 1897. West Orange Laboratory (D-97-23) This folder contains correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to operations at the West Orange laboratory. Included are letters about the purchase of chemicals, the repair of the boiler-room roof, and the inspection of the laboratory for insurance and fire-safety purposes. There are also lists of individuals who held keys to the laboratory’s front gate. Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been filmed. The following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine internal memoranda regarding orders and shipments; laboratory storekeeper orders and receipts; routine cashier forms. Of' Adresse fttr Teiegrammc: „Dehaen Hannover." Chemische Fabrik List vor Hannover, June 14th 1897. 3i ctM t>o»! 2? ateitogtopfiwt von: y' Laboratory of Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N.J. Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favour of 18th May and thank you for your second order for Sundry chemicals which is having my prompt attention and will be executed as de¬ sired, through Messrs Pitt & Scott. I shall hand you invoice in due course and meanwhile I remain, dear Sir, Yours very truly E. DE Haen. Telephon No. 21. A '5 | s- — f \^\ L&tlcr+J ^ It J J~6 , . a— , -t -e ^ Date of Inspection t / Name of Sprinkle^? ^tai^n ESS ' General Condition of System JL Are sprinklers dean ? A Are Valves strapped? Local Alarms b IVater in tank Ax Air pressure Density of non-freezing liquid ~~ MONTHLY REPORT. Office of GENERAL FIRE EXTINGUISHER COMPANY, NEW YORK DEPARTMENT, MS Broadway, New York. <3/9 ifarV' This Sprinkler System has been carefully inspectedfand was in t condition, as shown by the detail report above. z££jnspeotor. E. 0. RICHARDS, NOTE.— O— Good Order f/X— Dad Order Department Jgent. Adresse fllr Telegramme: „Dehaen Hannover." E. DE HAEN. Teiephon No. 2i. Chemische Fabrik List vor Hannover, July 14th 1897 dictiit voit: / voit: Thomas A. Edison, Esq. , Orange N.J. Dear Sir, I lave your favour of 1st inst.and in reply beg to sa^y that the goods on order will be ready for shipment to-morrow. The 25 pounds of Anhydrous Chloride of Aluminium you kindly ordered will be added to same and X shall hand you invoice of the whole in a day or two. With regard to the execution of this and your former order I beg to say that same have been delayed somewhat because a small portion of articles were not in stock and had to be manufactured first.- I now have duly noted that you consent, in case .the' one or the other article not being in stock, in future the other goods are to be forwarded at once, whereas the balance may follow with next shipment.- You may rest assured that your future orders will be executed more promptly. Regarding Catalogue I beg to say that ray price-current is issued only 3 times in the year. The last edition dates from April and a fresh one will appear in abott4 weeks, a copy thereof will be mailed to your esteemed firm as soon as possible. I should be pleased if you would hand me your orders also ■ for those sorts of chemicals which don’t appear on my list. Even in case Iddn’t manufacture same myself,! would procure same for you, charging them aB low as anyother competing firm. Awai tlnjf the pleasure of your news, I remain, Dear Sir, /y Yours truly ebj, - f C^/CS c&a#/ity/tMieM “ (Sd/Jen-; J^rniaj ¥ T 'dm< f August 10,169?'. Thos. A, Edison, Esq Edison, Sussex New jersey Oo., °) iw-UJ-^-c-e^-ut/trrJ JzvJrJC ' Dear; sir:* , Jj O-JS-^G- «ms> a,